D loosing the battle

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Jonas Byström Wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I had great hope that D within a few years would be the new standard for people requiring high performance from their language. Then I got wiser (http://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html?partner=fogcreek), realizing that D must invade the C/C++ space to not dissappear. And, sadly, D has not done that, and is definitely moving towards filling a hole in cyberspace (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html). Heck, it's not even listed on Language Shootout any more.
> 

On this particular point, I and bearophile asked for adopting LDC in benchmarks in The Great Language Shootout (which may blow everything else), but the author isn't even interested in D.
TGLS must not be taken as an objective thing. Languages and implementations are disqualified at will.

Also TIOBE index is based on web visibility and must not be taken as is. There was a thread about it during the year.