The D Programming Language has been accepted as a GSoC 2019 organization

Wed Feb 27 18:04:42 UTC 2019

On 2/27/19 11:05 AM, JN wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 February 2019 at 16:01:15 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 22:34:45 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>>
>>> The D Language Language got accepted as a Google Summer of Code 
>>> organization!

Awesome!

> 
> Or be turned off. If I didn't know about D, from that description I'd 
> think it's some experimental language for whom Boost wasn't crazy enough 
> with templates. "The best, most innovative ways to use the D language 
> are yet to be discovered." That's great. But it doesn't answer the most 
> important questions - what can it be used for, what makes it different 
> than say C++ or Java.

In my experience, when non-D-users are asking that question, what 
they're REALLY looking for is one (and only one) gimmick that the entire 
D language (and ONLY D) takes religiously at the negligence of all else. 
And since "pragmatism" isn't a trendy silver-bullet ideology like Java's 
"Everything is an object", or JS's "Everything is a variant", Python's 
"Everything is a variant AND we have 'Zen'", Haskell's "Though shalt not 
do imperative", or Go's "ZOMG, It's from teh Google Gods!!!", so they 
gripe about not being spoon-fed marketing BS and walk away. Habitual 
consumerists. They're lost souls, slaves to pack mentality, so forget 
about them. Target leaders and thinkers instead.

Although frankly, I have to admit, this whole "Fast code, fast" thing is 
complete and utter rubbish compared to the "Better C++" that we've now 
decided to be politically incorrect (very ironically, despite active 
promotion of "betterC").