I've already received enough "No, not interested" answers till
now to the same proposal to think that this will be ok this
time.
Add my voice to that corpus - I honestly don't care what the
website looks like.
Ok, message received. At least I've got my answer for the PR.
Thanks for your honesty. Sincerely.
Now, to be 100% honest with you, I'm still convinced it DOES
matter, because many people who have heard about D, whether it's
in a conference, on a blog or article or by a colleague, will
eventually land on the main page of this website.
Then they will have to decide if they install the compiler and
learn D, or not.
And I'm pretty sure many won't, for the reasons explained.
Now you know EXACTLY, to the smallest detail, what I would
personally do to fix that...
And yes, call it masochism, I continue proposing the change
over and over, because I'm totally convinced that those
changes to the dlang.org landing page are REALLY needed.
I haven't called it anything, yet, but if I were to call it
something, it would be insanity, because I see no causal link
between proposing the same thing repeatedly and other peoples'
interests.
LOL. Ok so let's be insane once again... ;)
My proposal is to :
1. Say "Welcome"
2. Show how D is nice, ending with a link to the feature page
3. Show how simple D code looks like, using 4 well chosen
examples, with the first on the right of the main page.
4. Show how easy it is to learn D.
5. Show how easy it is to install DMD and a simple editor like
CoEdit on any win/mac/linux computer.
In practice, the landing page should be something like that :
"Welcome to D
What is D?
D is the culmination of decades of experience implementing
compilers for many diverse languages and has a unique set of
features:
high level constructs for great modeling power
high performance, compiled language
static typing
direct interface to the operating system API's and hardware
blazingly fast compile-times
memory-safe subset (SafeD)
maintainable, easy to understand code
gradual learning curve (C-like syntax, similar to Java and
others)
compatible with C application binary interface
limited compatibility with C++ application binary interface
multi-paradigm (imperative, structured, object oriented,
generic, functional programming purity, and even assembly)
built-in error detection (contracts, unittests)
... and many more {features}.
Take a tour
Want to try D online ? Simply click on the "run" button (or
Ctrl-enter) below the example on the right to compile and run it.
And the example can be freely edited if you want to experiment
with D programming.
If you want to see other examples, click on the "next" button
below to see the next example of the dlang-tour.
Further readings
* New to programming? Learn programming quickly and easily with
the D language, using these freely downloadable books :
* {http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html}
* {https://www.tutorialspoint.com/d_programming/}
* Already an experienced programmer? ...
* etc etc ...
Installing D
...
* {https://dlang.org/download.html}
* {https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit}";
Four D examples for the Dlang-Tour :
* How to declare, use and print variables (bool, int, float,
string, int[], int[string]).
* How to declare imperative functions
* How to declare classes with attributes and methods
* How to call functions and methods with the dot notation, with
or without parentheses
Still not convinced ?
No problem, I don't even know why I care in making D grows its
community to have more money, and thus more manpower to get
improved, while the current version is already perfect to my
personal scripting needs.
Anyway, feel free to copy-paste the changes I've suggested, they
are 100% free to use...
