On 10/24/2011 5:42 PM, dsimcha wrote:
I got the impression that D is not being used partly because of the obvious reasons (lack of libraries, legacy code in other languages) but also partly because most people, even if they've heard of it, don't know what its most important features/benefits are. I think that we need to develop a short, memorable "elevator speech" version of its selling points, even if we ignore some substantial areas in doing so. The one I used was basically "compile-time metaprogramming on steroids, static if, CTFE, string mixins, see std.algorithm, std.range and std.parallelism for examples".
You're right, I've been recently wrestling with the elevator pitch thing for D. I know we need one. Bartosz has suggested "Systems programming safe and easy."
