Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

Bienlein ffm2002 at web.de
Wed Jan 23 09:14:18 UTC 2019


On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 08:55:23 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> D really needs its killer use case if it is to move away from 
> that list.

D is a lot like Scala on the JVM: Both language have myriads of 
language features and bells and whistles, but there is no killer 
feature in the language itself. Rust and Go have that: Rust has 
safe manual memory management and Go has an excellent threading 
model with communicating sequential processes (aka goroutines). 
Scala didn't make it anywhere until Akka came along beind 
developed in Scala. Then came Play, Spark and Kafka - all 
developed in Scala.

Either the language has a killer feature or there must be a 
killer application written in it. For D the latter applies as it 
does not have a killer feature in the language. Build CSP into D 
or manual memory management as in Rust. CSP without a GC is 
difficult (that's one reason why Go has a GC) and Go has a very 
good GC.

I don't think marketing is a requirement. Rust and Go also 
received no big marketing. Their respective killer feature paved 
the way as those things were needed. Then people just take it and 
use it.


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