Code That Says Exactly What It Means

[Peter C]

On Tuesday, 28 October 2025 at 08:09:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 10/27/2025 11:47 PM, Peter C wrote:
>> Even after more that two decades of devlopment, the D 
>> Programming Language didn't even get a single mention. It's 
>> not that it was mentioned and then discarded as not being a 
>> suitable succesor for this or that reason, it just wasn't 
>> mentioned. Not even a mention from the audience at question 
>> time. This was just last year! I was pretty suprised by this 
>> actually.
>> 
>> I'd love to ask Helge Penne why he never mentioned the D 
>> Programming Language.
>
> D has terrible marketing.
>

I've been thinking about this, and I think you are (almost) spot 
on here.

That is, it's not so much terrible marketing, but rather not 
really knowing what it is you're trying to market.

D is very much a language for a niche purpose, at least as far as 
I can tell.

It's really not the language to replace C++, or Java, or C# or.. 
even C.

I'm not going to switch from C# to D, because OOP is D is just so 
much better ;-)

So, here is a marketing theme for you:

"The D Programming Language - Specialized Code for Specialized 
Needs."

This seems consistent with the many articles I've read about how 
people have used D.

Expect the bill in the mail...