Is D still alive?

[retard]

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:14:27 +0000, Roman Ivanov wrote:

> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s
> article
>> On 1/27/11 8:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> > I think one of the reasons DbC has not paid off is it still requires
>> > a significant investment of effort by the programmer. It's too easy
>> > to not bother.
>> One issue with DbC is that its only significant advantage is its
>> interplay with inheritance. Otherwise, scope() in conjunction with
>> assert works with less syntactic overhead. So DbC tends to shine with
>> large and deep hierarchies... but large and deep hierarchies are not
>> that a la mode anymore.
> 
> DbC opens many interesting possibilities if it's supported by tools
> other than just the compiler. MS has included it in .NET 4.0:
> 
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/contracts/

Mono 2.8 also seems to support those:

http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2010/Oct-06.html