On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:46:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:31:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 06:42:29 UTC, Anton Fediushin
wrote:
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"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being
talked about." Oscar Wilde
"There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own
obituary." Brendan Behan
Well, maybe the odd person will keep D in the back of his/her
mind, also it says:
"But it is a convenient way to taste managed memory and all of
the “new” concepts without leaving familiar tool chains and
losing the C library."
So someone who's interested in that (plus C-interoperability!)
might give D a shot. I was one of them a long long time ago.
Yes that is true, BUT it also gives the wrong portray of D,
when in fact D could fit into most, if not all the categories
listed, but it's portrayed as if it only fits for C/C++
programmers and again not as something serious, but as a
semi-useless toy.
I agree. However, these are misconceptions that D has had to live
with for years. It's hard to get rid of them. On the bright side,
D gets a mention while years ago it wouldn't even have made it
onto the list, which is a good sign, because it shows that D is
on the tech-radar. Apparently it is being talked about and
mentioned elsewhere in the tech-world and the author felt he
couldn't just leave it out.
Also, as this thread shows, people take the language descriptions
in the article with a grain of salt anyway (and rightly so!). So
I think, all things considered, it's a good sign that D got
mentioned. I remember, in the old days people would wonder why D
wasn't on lists like that at all. So there's some progress there.
