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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