On 3/13/2015 7:20 AM, Chris wrote:
This is true. This battle is lost. But a lot of users, even people who are interested in D, shy away from D, because they don't have the feeling that "this is something really useful". We fail to communicate both its general usefulness and its strong points as opposed to other languages. What the big marketing machines behind Go etc. do is to make people feel good about a product (even if it's shit). We should do the same. Only because Google does it, doesn't mean it's a big taboo for us. The fact of the matter is that we have failed to win over:
I gave a talk at Digipen recently. (Digipen is a private college aimed at teaching professional game programmers.) They are mostly a C++ house. So I was talking to college students who were deep into programming.
I thought I'd try something different, and wrote a presentation that simply showed some neato things that D could do without diving deep into how those things work.
The home run, though, was showing how unittests combine with -cov testing to make code robust. Yes, you can do this in other languages, but it is so simple to do in D. It really struck a chord with these people.
