[Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 12:01:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 11:13:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> If you have powerful entities pushing a language down 
>> developers throats, it will get used. That is how many 
>> mainstream languages got where they are now.
>
> It will be used if its capabilities suit target domain. In 
> other words, no matter how Java or C# were pushed, C is still 
> de-facto standard in many places.

This is why Microsoft killed C in their tooling. Unless they
change their mind, C++ will be the lowest you can get in a few
Visual Studio interactions.

> And even Google influence won't bring Go there.

This will change the day Android requires Go instead of Java.

Not sure why they still fighting with Oracle, but who know what 
goes on enterprise top management.

>
> Same goes for Rust - I have no doubts it will get used if it 
> technically can be used. But the latter can't be clear right 
> now.

Agreed.