On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:54:30 +0200 Ulrik Mikaelsson <ulrik.mikaels...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My view, is the D community right now are thinking long and hard about > their own needs, and less of the needs of their users. (For a > language, the application programmer IS the user.) Maybe even rightly > so, getting things language-wise right from the start IS important! > However, if it is desirable to attract developers that want to use D > for productivity right now, there are a lot of practical issues that > needs addressing, rough edges to smoothen, and hardly any of them lie > in the language itself. I agree. Shortly after I joined this place, Walter sent a post listing different ways how community can help D. Here it is: * Write articles about D and post them online in various forums * Go through bugzilla and submit patches for bugs * Provide D interfaces (.di files) to popular C libraries * Integrate D support for your favorite editor * Write convoluted code to try and break the compiler * Contribute to the GDC and LDC projects *Write library modules for an area that you know well Interestingly enough, it's not listed 'write general-purpose application in D...so that others can see D is useful for writing practical applications' and that just the way I thought I could contribute :-) Anyway, enough talk. I wish all success to D2 so that we might consider it as viable alternative for our project(s) in not so distant future. Bye... ;) Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810
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