Google Code Jam 2022

[Siarhei Siamashka]

Now all three parts of the round 1 are over and finalized. 
There's a third-party website, which provides some stats: 
https://cpjsmith.uk/gcj/year?year=2022

It's interesting that D is one of the least popular programing 
languages with only a single digit number of users. It never 
managed to gain traction for some reason even in this niche. Yes, 
I know that there's a big discussion in another forum thread 
about why D is unpopular in general: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/axslxubumvtrudpjfpng@forum.dlang.org

In programming competitions the experimental nature of the 
programming language and never ending compatibility breakages are 
a non-issue, because there's no need to maintain the written code 
over the span of many years. So it may seem that D should be a 
very good choice for programming competitions, but there's still 
no success. And it's not just the usual domination of C++ and 
Python languages. Rust is happily eating D's lunch.