On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 14:32:38 UTC, JohnCK wrote:
On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 12:00:41 UTC, Ozan wrote:
the TIOBE Index for December 2015 lists D in rank 23.
You know what: for a language that is about 14 years old I was
expecting more by now.
Python was released in '91 and didn't reach the mainstream until
2004-ish. Ruby was released in '95 and didn't catch mainstream
attention until rails was picked up by many companies in
2006-2007.
Programming languages taking a while to get adoption is very
common. It takes a lot of investment from companies and
programmers to learn a new language and build something in it.
This is especially true when your language is a systems language,
which takes much more effort to learn and use than a scripting
language like the two examples above.
