What is the D plan's to become a used language?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 23:46 +0200, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
> matters. oh, really? Go can magically do all header parsing, 
> database management and other things for me? or we talking about 
> "echo" servers?

What happened was that a lot of people interested in all this HTTP 
bullshit, SQL dross, UI using Qt, and Go, and wrote a lot of libraries 
that everyone can use. So yes Go can do all that magic stuff – not 
just echo servers.

> Go is just hyped, that's all. there is NOTHING hard in creating 
> simple HTTP(S) server with templated pages, forms and data 
> processing with vibe.d. hey, it even has a sample of such server out 
> of the box! it's dead easy. and vibe.d can utilize threads to use 
> all CPU cores (you will lost some handyness here, but hey: don't use 
> global variables! ;-).

I have no doubt that Vibe.d can do this. If there was a way of mocking 
(so that you can run integration tests without the actual network) 
with Vibe.d I would be having a play with it, but there isn't, so I am 
not.

> even adding the whole Go to D will not make D overtake Go. Go is 
> hyped. D is not. that's all.

At this stage hype or not is a complete irrelevance, the point is that 
Go has a lot of people writing a lot of software for wide availability 
and use. D…is probably a far better language, but…

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