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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Alexandrescu https://en.wikipedia.
by bachmeier 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bright
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Alexandrescu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Alexandrescu
They've promoted it (holding annual conferences and such) but they don't have Mozilla or Google behind them, so resources are limited.
Edit: And here are some blog posts by Walter Bright about D as a Better C.
https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/ https://dlang.org/blog/2017/08/23/d-as-a-better-c/
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/07/vanquish-forever-these-bugs-that-blasted-your-kingdom/ https://dlang.org/blog/2018/02/07/vanquish-forever-these-bug...
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make-c-to-d/ https://dlang.org/blog/2018/06/11/dasbetterc-converting-make...
- rob74 6y agoWell, Rust doesn't have Mozilla behind them anymore either (ok, they now have a foundation with not only Mozilla, but also Microsoft, Amazon, Google and - whoa! - Huawei as sponsors, so you could argue that's an improvement). And I'm not sure how much Google is really invested in backing Go. But yeah, I guess D looks small in comparison to both...
- mhh__ 6y agoThis goes both ways, but one thing that we need to be louder about as a (D) community is that there are features that these languages (e.g. Rust) make a lot of noise about that Rust has had for years now - e.g. D's interop with C++ is extremely good, to the point where D should be able to catch an exception from C++ and unwind correctly. Another example is the Integers-in-Generics post that hit 300 points, which D has had for years now. There are some rust features that I want in D, but we'll see about that.