On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 15:11:53 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Well, that's what the last part is about, but I think you also
have to tell a story about how the project came to be: that's
what the first two are about.
I don't know the details, but I read a post somewhere that there
are misconceptions about how long D, or more specifically D2 has
been around. I believe these misconceptions could beget questions
like "D has been around so long, why does it still have so many
bugs!?" So you're probably right that this should be addressed.
The information exists, it's just not easy to find or
particularly expansive:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Current_D_Use
You're not going to get people to agree on the idea, or they'd
have done it already. ;) Somebody needs to submit a PR and
force a decision, and as you say, it's not much work. You can
do that and I'll chip in, or I'll get around to it eventually.
I think the first step would be to draft an email explaining the
intent to put these companies' logos on the home page as "Proud
Users of the D Programming Language" and get Walter or Andrei to
sign off on it. This email could also contain a suggested layout.
If approved, we could send the letter to the relevant contacts,
and if we get a decent number of Yes's, we could move forward
with collecting the companies' information/logos and deciding
how/where they should be displayed.
This could also act as a sort of plug for the companies involved.
It could also be discussed whether or not it was a good idea to
put an "Are you using D?" link on the main page by which a
company could ask for their name/logo to be included.
