On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Walter Bright wrote: > On 10/24/2011 5:42 PM, dsimcha wrote: > > I got the impression that D is not being used partly because of the obvious > > reasons (lack of libraries, legacy code in other languages) but also partly > > because most people, even if they've heard of it, don't know what its most > > important features/benefits are. I think that we need to develop a short, > > memorable "elevator speech" version of its selling points, even if we ignore > > some substantial areas in doing so. The one I used was basically > > "compile-time > > metaprogramming on steroids, static if, CTFE, string mixins, see > > std.algorithm, > > std.range and std.parallelism for examples". > > You're right, I've been recently wrestling with the elevator pitch thing for > D. I know we need one. Bartosz has suggested "Systems programming safe and > easy."
That's not a pitch, that's a slogan or a catch phrase. It might be enough to get the listener to invite the pitch. A pitch needs to be longer and more informative. You've got 20-30 seconds to convince the person to look deeper. It's enough to list a couple important points. Top three reasons it's worth looking at closer.. something along those lines.
