On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 18:54:30 UTC, Baz wrote:
You're wrong, there's a real need for promoting D worldwide.
Did I say otherwise? I am not sure you are reacting to what I actually wrote.
Just for example, this mainstream (french) programming site has (had?) a forum for D which is not updated or used at all: http://www.developpez.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=fadd36f8505c59f0714e4e24a0c5a195&f=1180
That's a shame.
Fedora a few years ago has proposed the D language as a part of their very "extremist open source ashole repository". The fact is that D is totally missing from their dev packages ("sudo yum i want some only opensource douche stuff even if I have to type make make install every two minutes"). And If you setup dmd manually they'll propose you to setup ldc, which is not possible due to some broken package dependencies...
I don't understand your visceral hostility here. No one is excluding D on licensing grounds -- there might be some distros that would prefer not to include DMD, but they'd be happy to include GDC and/or LDC.
If D compilers are missing from a distro, or have broken dependencies, it's because no one is stepping up to take responsibility for packaging.
Blogs are usefull, D can be used in many editors and compiled in two portables IDE (Xamarin and Geany) and in another mainstream win-only-IDE(VS)...
Yes, blogs are useful. I'm still not sure who your argument is with, though.
