Re: Let's market D: tell us how you're using it

2016-04-04 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 09:12:05 UTC, Joakim wrote: I though Laeeth had a good suggestion on how to market D a couple months ago, as the current front-page pitch may be too general for some chunk of readers: "A set of 'channels' for different use cases might be helpful. Eg bioinformatics,

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-19 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 22:02:47 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote: On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 20:03:08 UTC, John Carter wrote: https://www.gnome.org/outreachy/ Google, Intel, HP, Bloomberg, etc are sponsoring this outreach. D does not have any such luxury. Listen, I would love that more wom

Re: Stack Overflow: Developer Survey Results - 2016

2016-03-19 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 14:54:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I doubt this is a wholly representative sample because I'm guessing a lot of people don't bother answering Stack Overflow surveys. I know I didn't, and I go to the site almost daily. But lol, if the average student has 3.4 years

Re: Females in the community.

2016-03-19 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 16:17:46 UTC, Karabuta wrote: Are there any female programmers using D? :) Moreover, the socia Media representation of D sucks. I think we need a female, at least someone soft and mortal who actually understand how to communicate and build a community. Coders suck

Re: Stack Overflow: Developer Survey Results - 2016

2016-03-19 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 18:33:08 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, 17 March 2016 at 14:16:49 UTC, Darkfeign wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 The bottom line is that the information that they have seems to be biased enough that I don't see much point

Stack Overflow: Developer Survey Results - 2016

2016-03-18 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016 Developer survey results are in from Stack Overflow. Particularly interested to see is Rust topping the 'Most Loved' category, with Go just below at #5. Interested in hearing other peoples' thoughts on the results and what you found most

Re: [hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

2015-04-20 Thread Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 12:17:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/19/15 9:03 AM, ANtlord wrote: Good day! May be it is silly question, but I can't understand. Can I take a part in hackaton remotely? Yes! The hackathon is exclusively online and distributed! And second question. Will