Is D still alive?

[bearophile]

Andrej Mitrovic:

> Another way to look at it is that programmers are enjoying the safety
> of using regular D so much as to not even think about using DbC.

This may be a case of Risk homeostasis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_homeostasis
But maybe it's mostly a matter of getting used to D. Once you get used to a safer language, you want even more and something better. You want the frosting too on your cake :-) And probably D is not the end of the line in the evolution of C-derived languages. There is space for improvements, like having notnull reference types, typestates, etc. For example, it will be interesting to see where the Rust language goes.

Bye,
bearophile