On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 14:26:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
Seeing as Rust is more or less a direct competitor to D, this
is somewhat worrying. This suggests that the Rust devs (by that
I mean people in the community that submit pulls) are able to
iterate far faster than we are, and the gap between D and Rust
is quickly closing.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd - "77 contributors"
https://github.com/mozilla/rust - "392 contributors"
I am not surprised.
Also AFAIK Mozlla has a team of paid full-time programmers
working on it, something D can only dream about.