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I've been interested in D for a while, for these reasons and more - it's features look nice, but it never seems to have gotten much popularity/mindshare. Could

by misnome 14y ago

I've been interested in D for a while, for these reasons and more - it's features look nice, but it never seems to have gotten much popularity/mindshare. Could you hazard a guess why?

pjmlp 14y ago
In the early days there were some issues in the community which lead to the Phobos/Tango divide in the standard library for D1. This is now past history as the community has joined around D2, just known as D, and strives to reach compliancy with the "The D Programming Language" book written by Andrei Alexandrescu. D2 development is made in the open with source code available in GitHub. Besides the reference compiler, dmd owned by Digital Mars, there are also LDC and GDC compilers available. Currently it seems that GDC might be integrated into GCC as of 4.8 release. Right now it seems more people are picking up D, mainly for game development projects.
- CJefferson 14y ago
  Indeed, the D1 splits, and and also questions being answered with "that will be in D2". There is now a problem that there is not yet a consensus about how D2 compares to C++11.