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I've never really dived into D, but why was it never more popular? It seems like it was posed to take off, but never quite did.
by finder83 6y ago
I've never really dived into D, but why was it never more popular? It seems like it was posed to take off, but never quite did.
- tastyminerals2 6y agoD had an unfortunate early history. For a long time being a one man project, surviving through Python2 to Python3 akin transition and slowly maturing during all these years. Many top D features were added along the way but were not available from the start. Also in the beginning D focus was to be a better C++ with GC which is not something that excited C++ crowd who smirked as soon as they heard about GC and never actually approached the language. It is only later that it became clear that it is a separate unique language. I think D just grew and matured naturally into something very solid. D has a small but a very skilled team of seasoned C++ veterans and language designers. I dare to say, I am yet to see better forum answers than on forum.dlang.org both on the account of the language and programming in general.
- finder83 6y agoInteresting, thanks for the synopsis. :) Sounds worth looking into.
- teleforce 6y agoFor a really good background reading on D language landscape, check this paper by its authors: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323