> > > 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's like going back 20 years and telling Linus "without a properly financed and orchestrated marketing campaign to push Linux out there..." , you get my drift.
Money and marketing are important, specially when you are developing a proprietary system. You can have a shit product, but with enough marketing you can make people believe it's not shit; Microsoft has done it, same with Sun and Java. If D fails, it's not because of lack of money or marketing, but because of lack of a healthy and growing community. A healthy community is what all successful open source projects have in common. Moving to Github was a step in the right direction, but it's not enough, and the people in charge don't seem to have a clue as to how to build a community. How many new developers have joined the development of D/Phobos in the last year? I bet very few. They haven't even fixed the link to that old site, and it's been like that for far too long. Where is "D/Phobos Developer's Guide" page?
