D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

[Matt Soucy via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/13/2015 05:29 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>> "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but we don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D".
>>
>> This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. Scala has somewhat managed to create its own eco system with Akka, Spark, Spray in a specialized area like concurrent programming and big data. Also because Scala has found some liking in academical circles (e.g. Spark, Scala STM). I don't know how things will look like for Kotlin. Maybe there will be a niche for Android development. For Groovy there is basically only Grails as a killer application.
> 
> Giving how D is similar to C/C++ I am surprised that non-familiriarity with D is a big problem.

I agree - I posted some code I was working on into IRC, in a channel with basically zero D programmers, and mentioned "How many lines are run at compile-time vs runtime?". People with no D experience got the answer right first try.

D is extremely easy to pick up (at least the basics) for someone with C++ experience, in my opinion.

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