Jesse Phillips Wrote: > Steve Teale Wrote: > > > That this newsgroup was renamed digitalmars.d2. Probably > 80% of the > > discussion here is on topics relating to the evolution of the language. > > Don't get me wrong, as soon as D2 is stable, I'll be the first to switch. > > > > But where does the current discussion leave those of us who want to use D > > and talk about the usage of what is the current mainstream core of the > > language - 1.055 - if I understand the situation correctly? That should be > > digitalmars.D. > > > > If there was discussion about how good it was that the various flavors of > > the language were getting in sync, and on idiom, and on cool D programming > > techniques, and on explanation, I'm sure the newsgroup would pull more > > people in. > > > > As it is, the uncommitted with some interest in D visit occasionally, and > > leave with the same old, same old feeling. > > > > Let's try to turn D into a really active living language, not some vague > > future possibility. Perception is everything! > > Actually this has come up before and the consensus was that digitalmars.D is > the group about the development of D. And that digitalmars.learn is poorly > named because discussion about using D goes there. > > And some of what you would like to see already happens in 'learn', but you > are welcome to add to it. An attempt to make this clear was put on the Wiki4D > site[1], please change the text if you have something better (I realize most > people are not introduced to the groups through Wiki4D, but I do hope the > site is a better introduction to D than the official site). > > http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?NewsDmD
I realize it has come up before. Periodically I come back to D to see what's going on, and lately I have had a resurgence of enthusiasm, but not because of the digitamars.D group. I don't believe that D aficionados are going to post many 'wow, this is cool - look at this' articles on the .learn group. They'll answer questions, yes, but with its rankings sinking, D needs more oomph. I'll check out the Wiki.
