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D is a sweet language, but there are lots of CPUs/Microcontrollers for which C compilers are available, but not much else (except assembly).

• pjmlp 9y ago
  Once upon a time, C was only available in expensive UNIX workstations.
  • krylon 9y ago
    I do not work in embedded systems, so take anything I say with a grain of salt (or more!). If D became available in all of those embedded platforms, I am sure lots of people would rejoice. Or maybe they would just shrug because they would not know what hit them. But it would be their loss, because D is, in many ways, C++ "done right". Which IMHO is a remarkable achievement. Either way, I would not hold my breath for C becoming obsolete in the sense of "no one is using it any more". It is not happy, but for now it is all we've got.
    • scruple 9y ago
      > I am sure lots of people would rejoice I'm one of those people and I spent ~6 years in embedded and I still write C today (though it's no longer my primary language). Of my former co-workers, probably 50 people in total across 4 teams, exactly 0 of them were at all interested in any sort of C alternative. I'd wager less than 6 of them even knew what C alternatives were even picking up steam. If it wasn't talked about by folks like Michael Barr or Embedded magazine, they simply wouldn't have any way of finding out. > Either way, I would not hold my breath for C becoming obsolete I wouldn't either. Call it the old guard, call them greybeards, it really doesn't matter. They're the ones buying chips from vendors that supply C toolchains and compilers. Until that is addressed, none of this talk matters.
      • pjmlp 9y ago
        Which is why there is the saying that progress can only be achieved by replacing generations.