Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?)

[Andrej Mitrovic]

While we're on topic of advocacy, I've just noticed these two topics on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eup9a/creating_database_schemas_with_go/
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/euuuw/creating_database_schemas_with_c/

Someone came up with a hackish way to do database schemas in Go, but
it left Reddit unimpressed (ha!). Another guy created the same thing
in C. Now would be a perfect time to show how it's done in D and gain
a little rep.

I'm sure this would be piece of cake to do in D since there's not a
lot of code, any volunteers? (me, I wouldn't know the first thing
about databases so I'd likely screw something up :p).

On 1/2/11, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 1/2/11 4:35 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Caligo wrote:
>>> Yeah, I don't think Linus would find D appealing.
>>
>>> So why is D being advertised as a systems programming language? By
>>> saying Linus would not find D appealing you are basically saying
>>> kernel developers would not find it appealing.
>>
>> Not at all. He's hardly the only systems programmer. I'd expect the
>> number of different opinions about what makes a good systems language to
>> be about equal to the number of systems developers.
>
> If not greater than :o).
>
> Andrei
>