Why D is not popular enough?

eugene via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 1 09:35:30 PDT 2016


On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 16:25:52 UTC, yuioyyoi wrote:
> On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 16:16:03 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 15:31:35 UTC, Emre Temelkuran 
>> wrote:
>> i suppose it was simply because D v.1 failed and then authors 
>> created a new version of D (v.2) which is current, but the 
>> name "D" stayed the same, so, people remember some drawbacks 
>> of D v.1 and think that D v.2 has the same drawbacks, maybe 
>> without even trying D v.2
>
> Also before it was closed source and the whole infrastructure 
> (repository, testing , bug report) was shitty. Bright admited 
> himself that going to GH and using bugzilla was salvatory. So 
> even if it existed before, you can consider early 2010's as a 
> second birth. (there's a non technical conference posted 
> earlyer this year where he talked about this).

since that time (2010) even some student guys released exokernel 
O.S. written in D v.2 about 4 years ago (~2013): 
https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb
i don't know if it is practical, but still nice try


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