On 2010-01-22 09:01, Simen kjaeraas wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:52:20 +0100, Steve Teale
<[email protected]> 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!
IMHO:
digitalmars.D --> digitalmars.D.dev
digitalmars.D.learn --> digitalmars.D.users
D is not big enough to fork the groups in D1 and D2 IMO, but currently
there is considerable overlap between digitalmars.D and digitalmars.D.learn
in what they cover.
So, I mostly lurk here (and in fact had a hiatus of a few months where I
didn't even lurk), but I totally agree with this suggestion.
D.learn just isn't intuitive enough -- it suggests either random newbies
bumbling around wondering what a "pointer" is, or some kind of
fast-paced "D academy", neither of which is at all accurate. (Well,
except that there are occasionally newbies wondering how pointers work.)
