Why did D leave the programming language shootout and will it

[bearophile]

Chris Dew:

> Does this just boil down to them not wanting to include D and it's their site?
> 
> (Yet they include ATS and Go.)

It mostly boils down to reducing the amount of effort to keep the site up and running.
The author has decided to keep only languages sufficiently important (as in used) or sufficiently different from the other languages. D is not used enough and it's too much similar to other languages (for speed reasons D entries were very similar to C/C++ ones). This is also an advantage for D, because it means a C/C++ programmer doesn't need too much work to learn to use D. So be happy.

Bye,
bearophile