D ranked as #25 by IEEE spectrum

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On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 22:20:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 19:28:00 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages-2015
>
> They list D as useful for web development and embedded, but not 
> desktop apps... And they list Rust was useful for desktop apps 
> and web development. Something's fishy here.

I don't really disagree about D not being so useful for desktop 
apps, thanks to the GUI situation.

There's no up-to-date Qt bindings (excluding a Qml loader), GTK-D 
exists but GTK had some serious issues when I last tried it 
(especially on Mac), and I really do not like the look and feel 
of Swing. There are some other libraries, but most I've looked at 
are not cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux), or are not 
maintained. I am intending to try my luck at creating something 
similar to Xamarin Forms with Qt being the initial backend, but 
we'll see how that goes. Besides the GUI situation, D would of 
course be nice for desktop apps. Until then, not so much.