On Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 13:16:16 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
On Sunday, 7 May 2017 at 10:33:25 UTC, k-five wrote:
Although I found D for being more better, nicer,and fun than
C++ is, but there is a few questions on Stack-Over-Flow,
videos on Youtube, and some other forums in my country. So,
why D is not popular?
If by popular you mean C++ or Java levels of usage, that's a
pretty high standard. While D is not among the most used
languages in large enterprises, it is definitely not an obscure
language. For example, just a few days ago I was reading about
the new Scala Native project. Among the motivations for that
project is
"Scala Native provides an interop layer that makes it easy to
interact with foreign native code. This includes C and other
languages that can expose APIs via C ABI (e.g. C++, D, Rust
etc.)" [0]
You have to be careful about using stackoverflow as a measure
of language popularity. Most activity takes place on this
mailing list, which was going long before stackoverflow, and
there was little motivation to move there (Google searches will
bring you here).
One of the few quantitative measures (and even that's of
limited use) is DMD downloads from this site. Most recently
they have been at about 50,000 per month.[1]
[0] http://www.scala-native.org/en/latest/user/interop.html
[1] http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
If you look on TIOBE [1] newest stats, D does not look so bad
after all. It's ranked 23 with a 1.38% share. The so fashionable
and noisy Rust is only ranked 40 with 0.41% of share and classics
like COBOL, FORTRAN, Lisp, Scala, Ada, bash are all behind. So
it's not yet in the top 20 but I think that it will continue
growing, slowly and steadily.
[1]: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
