Code That Says Exactly What It Means

[Walter Bright]

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.

Adding more features won't change that.

What matters are people doing things with D, and then writing articles about it 
and posting them online. Lots of people are doing great things with D, but 
nobody writes articles about it.

I've seen plenty of pretty lame articles about other languages posted online. 
There's no reason we cannot do better with this.

People are willing to make presentations for Dconf. But none will take the next 
step and write an article about the contents of their presentation. I don't 
really understand that. Besides, writing programming articles is a great way for 
engineers to become known in the programming world, which means better 
opportunities and more pay!