On Tuesday, 21 January 2020 at 11:26:49 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 22/01/2020 12:02 AM, JN wrote:
>> On Monday, 20 January 2020 at 11:09:59 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>>> Just for comparison, one of the most successful multi billion profit companies has four squares as logo chucked together for its main product. You can really keep things simple.
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>> I think most of this discussion is just harmless fun.
>> 
>> D's branding, color, logo, even the design of the front page isn't the reason for it's relatively low adoption rate.
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> We should only do it, if we wanted to do a full rebranding.
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> Like say making @safe by default.

We could just give safeD a blue D logo?

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On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 11:54:21 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
> On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 04:21:54 UTC, James Lu wrote:
>> As we know, D has a branding problem. I suggest a small step towards fixing that branding problem, namely changing D's brand color to a shade of blue.

Agree. Blue is boring like Big blue (also boring).

On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 20:29:41 UTC, Martin Brezel wrote:
> Red fits much more to the theme of Mars and Phobos - red makes lot of sense and changing the color would make the color meaningless. If to fix PR, let's begin with D-Man,becauae D-Man looks broken, underevolved and has nothing to do with the planetary(=universal, spacetravel-hightec...) theme... D-Man ist just a dull "D" - the finesse of a kindergarten child.

I agree here.

On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 at 17:51:18 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> It shows how all of us are different: I never liked that logo or its color variants. :) (I don't understand the whole Mars theme either but that's a different matter.) To me, language logos don't mean anything and they really should not mean anything.

Perhaps some on-the-ground surveys of industry users of various languages (C++, Node.js, etc.) would be helpful in branding. I personally feel that Node could be ported to D (Node.D?) and with a GC D could replace Node.js.

The over 1 billion Chinese people in the world see red as luck, pleasure, and happiness. Color meanings are NOT steady across cultures. Blue as an example, is often associated with melancholy, loneliness and saddness... "feeling blue". So you're suggesting we make D feel like a lifeless language? :P
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Changing the coloration of a language to increase popularity is the beyond absurd, as is evaluating the shade of a website to caution colorations in nature. People are not that stupid--nobody is choosing a language because of the _color_ of the website.

On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 01:28:03AM +0000, log mout via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> The over 1 billion Chinese people in the world see red as luck, pleasure, and happiness.  Color meanings are NOT steady across cultures.
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I'm Chinese, but I *don't* see red as luck, pleasure, or happiness. That's just an ignorant stereotype.  But anyway, it's not even consistent *within* a culture, needless to say across cultures.


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> Changing the coloration of a language to increase popularity is the beyond absurd, as is evaluating the shade of a website to caution colorations in nature. People are not that stupid--nobody is choosing a language because of the _color_ of the website.

And the kind of people who *might* choose something based on that, is precisely the kind of people you *don't* want as users and customers. :-P


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Programming is not just an act of telling a computer what to do: it is also an act of telling other programmers what you wished the computer to do. Both are important, and the latter deserves care. -- Andrew Morton

What's red is faster.

On Saturday, 4 April 2020 at 13:43:26 UTC, wow wrote:
> What's red is faster.

Orkz boyz agreez with you.