D loosing the battle

Mike Parker aldacron at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 05:25:04 PST 2009


Bill Baxter wrote:
> 2009/11/5 Jonas Byström <highfestiva at gmail.com>:
>> 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.
>>
>> To gain popularity, I would guess that you need to integrate with Microsofts Visual Studio (plugin compiler and syntax highlighting). And that you need a few larger projects on board, such as game engines.
>>
>> There is still hope! Use it or loose it. :)
>>
> 
> It's "losing" and "lose", BTW.
> 
> --bb

My biggest pet peeve in the Internet Age, that.



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