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D seems interesting but I'm kind of put off by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a lot of folks using it, at least in the circles I run in. Anyone have an
by siliconsorcerer 3y ago
D seems interesting but I'm kind of put off by the fact that there doesn't seem to be a lot of folks using it, at least in the circles I run in. Anyone have an answer to the question why aren't more people using D?
- DougMerritt 3y agoI don't know; its creator, Walter Bright, is a frequent poster here on YN, and it must be quite frustrating to him. My impression of it has been that it might well amount to a safer version of C, but I have yet to try it on a project. A comparison with other "better C" languages, like the much more recent Zig, would be interesting too.
- pram 3y agoIIRC early on there was confusion because there were different runtimes/implementations? Then its thunder got stolen by Go and then Rust.
- tcmart14 3y agoThat is my understanding of it. A lot of core parts/features had competing options. One one hand is kind of cool. But also, lead to a lot of confusion until the D programming language eventually adopted one or the other as the official one.