On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:38:29 +0100 "IanWizard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I keep hearing a lot of people saying that they think that D is a > "niche" language. Did I completely miss something, or are they > just misinformed? I've never thought of D as a niche language. > I consider (and use) it as what Cpp should have been. Like a > love child from C, C++, and Python. I'd be very interested to > hear others thoughts on the subject, as well as other common > misconceptions. D is a general-purpose language, so when people call it "niche" I suspect they're simply referring to D's user base currently being much smaller than C/C++/Java/Python/etc. The "niche" of D users. OTOH, D can be (and often is) very accurately described as a reimagined, cleaned-up C++, so maybe their line of thinking is "Ok, so it's for C++ users that are unhappy with C++", which might a niche *if* that were *all* D was well suited for.
