On Saturday, 19 January 2013 at 11:52:52 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 21:21 +0100, bearophile wrote:
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(*) Groovy managed to use a 6 year rather than 10 cycle to real
usability, but it was only when SpringSource bought G2One and
started
putting resource into Groovy that it really took off. With
Canoo backing
it and one or two USA consultancies, it rapidly became the
dynamic
language of choice and actual use on the JVM. The similarities
between
D evolution and Groovy evolution are quite interesting (**).
Groovy has
made the jump to organizational respectability. D needs to do
the same.
This opinionated piece of opinion agrees:
"What about D as a replacement for C?
It's not there for the same reasons as Go. It's possible that
someday it will be suitable, but I'm less optimistic about it
strictly from a momentum perspective, it doesn't have a big
backer like Google and doesn't seem to be growing very rapidly.
But perhaps it will get there someday."
http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/follow_up_to_the_unreasonable.html
