On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 13:43:00 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 06/23/2017 08:49 AM, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
1/ it's not especially obvious that D is also an easy to learn
scripting language.
Ok, I think I understand your goal now.
There's a thing that I'd like to change on the home page, and I
think it aligns with your thoughts: "D is a systems programming
language" -> "D is a general-purpose programming language".
"Systems programming" puts the focus on the low-level side of
D, which may not even be its strong side (yet) if one looks at
the recent -betterC efforts.
"Systems programming" may scare users away who think they're
not good enough for that kind of programming.
"General-purpose programming" is a better fit, in my opinion.
Regarding the examples, I'd prefer very simple ones, too. Hello
World, 99 Bottles of Beer -- stuff like that. I think there's
the idea that examples should show some cool feature of D, but
I'd say they should just show how D looks with easy-to-follow
code. Maybe have a distinct page with cooler examples.
So, overall, I think dlang.org could be tweaked to be more
directed at newbie programmers, and I wouldn't mind that. I
don't think it would need a major overhaul of the site; just
some tweaks. But personally, I'm not really interested in the
marketing of D, so I'm not going to push for these things.
+1 :)
