On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 17:09:51 UTC, Jared Jeffries wrote:
I'm not talking especially about Quora, even if I admit that
it's on this forum that somebody advised me to learn D to
improve my object oriented programming skills.
I'm just saying that I think that D is de facto one of the best
languages for beginners like me.
A lot better than most mainstream language these forum are
always promoting as the best starting programming language.
So it's sad that D is ignored by so many young programmers,
because when they do some research on google, like I did, there
are too little chance they will find this advice.
D is mainly known as a system programming language because it's
indeed "C++ done well". But that's probably not enough to
convince C++ addicts to try D, especially because of the
garbage collector.
But D is a great alternative to mainstream garbage collected
languages like Java, C#, Javascript, PHP, etc.
I think it should instead be advertised as the perfect language
to learn programming and web development, because that's where
it really shines, IMHO.
I agree. We have a lot to improve in terms of marketing.
Mainly our messaging is jumbled.
Rust = memory safety
Go = the best runtime around
D = everything I guess?
And the problem is that D is good at everything (IMO), so how do
we go about marketing to everyone without getting our messages
mixed up in the public's view.
