D is crap

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 13:56:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 11 July 2016 at 12:18:26 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> and most of those people never even started to use D. took a 
>> brief look, maybe wrote "helloworld", and that's all. it
>
> Where do you get this from?

from reading this NG and other parts of teh internets.

> Quite a few D programmers have gone to C++ and Rust.

quite a few people who tried D... and anyway, the reasons were 
more complex, and GC usually just a nice excuse.

>  C is primarily used for portability/system support/interfacing 
> or because you have an existing codebase.

this is mostly what "i can't stand GC" people want to do.

> C is increasingly becoming a marginal language (narrow 
> application area).

'cause manual memory management is PITA. not only due to this, of 
course, but this is still something.