"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:j9go3v$arj$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 11/10/11 2:01 AM, Russel Winder wrote: >> Without a properly financed and orchestrated marketing campaign to push >> D out there to the C, C++ and Fortran crowd and/or a group of people who >> could be the "killer audience", and then for there to be serious take >> up, D remains a 10+ year old niche experiment with no mainline future. > > That would help, but I'm not sure that that would be a necessity. There > are languages that are doing well without massive marketing (Perl, Ruby, > Python).
True but somehow they manage to become famous because there was a killer feature everyone wanted to use. If I recall correctly: Perl - An easy way to create complex shell scripts and the major language to be used for web development (CGI) Ruby - It only took off because Ruby on Rails Python - People only started taking it serious after Zope appeared So it was a bit like JavaScript, where the majority of developers took interest in the language because of some task which was a kind of sales speach for the language. This is still missing for D, regardless how good the language might be. -- Paulo
