On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 21:46:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Only as a footnote, though. Our battle for traction is still an
uphill
battle. :-/
To be fair, D didn't exist when the article was first written and
was hardly ever mentioned on gamedev.net when the article was
updated in 2008. I'm guessing that the footnote about D was added
by Drew Sikora, the guy who manages the article/blog system
there. I don't think he knows enough about it to be more detailed
and was being conservative in writing about what he does know and
perceive.
I've been a member of that site since October of '99. There was a
time when any language that was not C or C++ was flamed to hell
every time it was mentioned. Java usually received the brunt of
it. A few years back when I mentioned D in a post, a moderator
went from flaming the language to insulting my intelligence and
competence for even mentioning it. These days, that sort of thing
doesn't happen anymore and is quickly squashed when it does. So
given that history at that site, I see a lot more positive in
this blurb being inserted into an article by a staff member. D is
definitely gaining traction there.
