On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 12:18:26 UTC, ketmar wrote:
and most of those people never even started to use D. took a brief look, maybe wrote "helloworld", and that's all. it
Where do you get this from? Quite a few D programmers have gone to C++ and Rust.
D *can* be used without GC. and it will still be "better C". it still will be less painful than C, but this is the price of doing "low-level things".
C is primarily used for portability/system support/interfacing or because you have an existing codebase. Even Microsoft's is now using higher level languages than C in parts of their system level code (operating system).
Btw, C has changed quite a bit, it is at C11 now and even have "generics"... but I doubt many will us it. C is increasingly becoming a marginal language (narrow application area).
