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D had Andrei Alexandrescu behind it for years, he worked at facebook for a while and tried to push D there, and they did used D for while Andrei is a big deal
by systems 5y ago
D had Andrei Alexandrescu behind it for years, he worked at facebook for a while and tried to push D there, and they did used D for while
Andrei is a big deal i would say
Since then FB moved on the build their own Ocaml based language reasonml
Julia doesn't have a big company behind, yet the language is steadily climbing the popularity ladder (and i doubt they have anyone at the calibre of Andrei Alexandrescu, but again, good pogrammer is not a good program manager)
D is not popular, because its leader failed at making it popular, they failed to give the qualities that would make it popular
- pjmlp 5y agoLast time I checked MIT is rather big. Facebook never really adopted D beyond a C++ preprocessor written in D. And yes the community is rather lousy with language marketing, which is completely unrelated to technical achievements.
- systems 5y agoA product failed, blame the product owner (designer, maker, etc..) Why are you refusing to blame the product owner D is not a good language, it really is not, it doesn't offer any compelling advantage to justify accepting its flaw Or simply put, its a bad product A bad product doesnt have to be trash, just enough bad design issue to make it bad I would strongly recommend new developers not to touch it there are far better option Say it as it is, its simple, its the truth Its functional, people use it, but its bad C++ is also bad, but its so overwhelmingly popular that you might want to learn it D is bad, and is unpopular