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I don't think that's true. Despite their corporate life support and relatively young ages, Go, Rust and Swift are all in the top 25 most active languages on Git

I don't think that's true. Despite their corporate life support and relatively young ages, Go, Rust and Swift are all in the top 25 most active languages on Github (https://gist.github.com/alysonla/e14c01ec7a0d2823e7317f7b58b22926#file-languages-by-pr-sql-L22 https://gist.github.com/alysonla/e14c01ec7a0d2823e7317f7b58b...) and D is not (and never has been). The masses have had a long time to adopt D and I wouldn't get my hopes up simply because it's not dead yet.

WalterBright 9y ago
So far 2017 has been a banner year for D, with the fully open sourcing of it and now the gcc incorporation!
- kaleidic 9y ago
  Plus betterC and gpu target.
  - WalterBright 9y ago
    betterC isn't quite ready yet, but I expect it to be game-changing. The DCompute project (supporting GPUs with D) is a huge deal, too.
    - nicwilson 9y ago
      Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting DCompute into orbit.
    - fithisux 9y ago
      If it is betterC and not betterC++ then it will be a game-changer.
      - nicwilson 9y ago
        The Dcompute kernel language (which for the most part is plain D, the compiler is completely reused) has the usual set of restrictions that any kernel languages have: no exceptions, recursion, runtime (which is what betterC is about), function pointers. It still has all the the features that make D great, sane templates (will work across both host and device to a degree), ranges, CTFE (no need to precompile you lookup tables) and so on.
kaleidic 9y ago
Garbage in, garbage out. Github's language detection isn't perfect, and people in the D community simply aren't particularly focused on marketing and popularity contests. See here for example : http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com/msg76782.html http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.co... Not only is it not quite dead yet, it's growing rapidly : http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png DMD downloads direct from home page only.

WalterBright 9y ago

So far 2017 has been a banner year for D, with the fully open sourcing of it and now the gcc incorporation!

kaleidic 9y ago
Plus betterC and gpu target.
- WalterBright 9y ago
  betterC isn't quite ready yet, but I expect it to be game-changing. The DCompute project (supporting GPUs with D) is a huge deal, too.
  - nicwilson 9y ago
    Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting DCompute into orbit.
  - fithisux 9y ago
    If it is betterC and not betterC++ then it will be a game-changer.
    - nicwilson 9y ago
      The Dcompute kernel language (which for the most part is plain D, the compiler is completely reused) has the usual set of restrictions that any kernel languages have: no exceptions, recursion, runtime (which is what betterC is about), function pointers. It still has all the the features that make D great, sane templates (will work across both host and device to a degree), ranges, CTFE (no need to precompile you lookup tables) and so on.

kaleidic 9y ago

Garbage in, garbage out. Github's language detection isn't perfect, and people in the D community simply aren't particularly focused on marketing and popularity contests. See here for example : http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com/msg76782.html http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.co... Not only is it not quite dead yet, it's growing rapidly : http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png DMD downloads direct from home page only.