On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 10:51:16 UTC, eugene wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 09:42:11 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta wrote: >> >>> >>> There are lot of projects using LLVM [1]. The fact that LDC if often >>> cited in the release notes means that it's one of the best. This is free >>> advertisement, as the LLVM release notes are read by PL people that may not >>> know D. The fact that LDC is recognized as one of the most important LLVM >>> projects also means that the LLVM folks will try to help the LDC folks when >>> needed. >>> >>> [1] http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/ >>> >> >> i dont think counting each time when ldc and d are mentioned in llvm >> community will help ldc and d to become popular))) >> > > News ticker often refer to the LLVM release notes. E.g. the Heise news > ticker (http://www.heise.de/) always reports about a new LLVM release. > But I never succeded to place a new LDC release into the ticker. It's > simply a good way to more people and get some advertising. > > With every new LDC release I inform LLVM Weekly (http://llvmweekly.org/), > too, which is a widely read news letter. From one of these source, news > about LDC spread to other sites like phoronix (http://phoronix.com/). > > Maybe counting of each reference is a bit childish (but fun). The real > question is: > Its not childish at all, if you could show a chart of visits and downloads vs news announcements its likely there is a correlation. However I think these days most of us that are researching alternatives only do so when necessary, so there is a chance that your work now will only pay off later when someone finds D and wants to check its pedigree. > > What do YOU do to advocate D? > > Regards, > Kai > >
