On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote:
For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media
(Hi Andrei!):
The following article about Rust made it to the front page of
HN and /r/programming recently: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/
Here is the part mentioning D:
"Well, as you probably remember, it is far not the first
attempt to create a "better" C/C++. Take the D language, for
instance. It was released in 2001 and is a good language
indeed. But there are no vacancies, no decent development
tools, no remarkable success stories associated with it. The
OpenMW project was initially started in D but then the authors
suddenly decided to completely rewrite it into C++. As they
confessed, they'd been receiving piles of emails where people
would say, "you are making a cool project and we'd like to
contribute to it, but we don't know and neither feel like
studying this silly D". Wikipedia tells us that there were a
lot of other attempts besides D to kill C++ - for example Vala,
Cyclone, Limbo, BitC. How many of you have even heard of these
languages?"
But people still hear about D. In fact, they're discussing it on
HackerNews right now.
So obviously it's doing something right.
