digitalmars.D - Marketing or PR firm to appeal to MBAs and CTOs
Marketing or PR to appeal to business majors and chief technology officers. Maybe hiring a firm, maybe as a community wiki-like effort. This is what I imagine a page for business majors would look like: Fire your CMake build consultant! Save costs on compilation farm! You won't need that one dude who can do C++ templates! all C++ developers, to save money, since C++ developers are expensive! Invest in technology today. Dlang takes longer to start a project with, but your team will be more productive later on! Product manager: Test a version of your code every hour, instead of every day! Chief technology officer: (cool tech attitude) Walter Bright began a revolution in C++ compilers with the Zortech C++ compiler. Andrei Alexandrescu did filler filler filler filler, sitting on the 8-person C++ committee at one point. Where are they now? They work on Dlang, a modern language. Junior developers: If there is a job listing with Dlang on it, it's probably a sign they care about technology and technical excellence, because Dlang is a minority language. Basically, I imagine a big page with arguments for us and our language. noble and
Sep 25 2020
On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 19:13:37 UTC, James Lu wrote:Dlang takes longer to start a project with, but your team will be more productive later on!Why would D take longer to start with in a project? Given that the project doesn't inherit anything from previous projects I would say that the startup time of D is the same as with other languages.
Sep 25 2020
On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 19:40:29 UTC, IGotD- wrote:On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 19:13:37 UTC, James Lu wrote:Needing to rewrite C++ headers. Needing to set up a WASM environment.Dlang takes longer to start a project with, but your team will be more productive later on!Why would D take longer to start with in a project? Given that the project doesn't inherit anything from previous projects I would say that the startup time of D is the same as with other languages.
Sep 25 2020