D for competitive programming

[Seb via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 21:20:29 UTC, urxvt1 wrote:
> I wanted to try topcoder problems (never used this site before)
> and I found out that it doesn't support dlang.
> They only have c++, java, c#, vb.net, python languages.
> It would be great to see D on this list.
> I found this thread 
> https://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=703674 
> and it seems that it's not that easy to add new langauge and 
> they are not very interested.
> And I think that one of the keys to make D more popular and 
> attract more people
> to try it would be to promote D as a language for learning 
> algorithms and competitive programming. This niche is mostly 
> occupied by c++ and java.
> I think that D might be a very good candidate to push these 
> languages in CP.
>
> I've also checked google code jam statistics and unfortunately 
> D isn't very popular here compared to say golang or scala.
> https://www.go-hero.net/jam/16/languages
> https://www.go-hero.net/jam/15/languages
> https://www.go-hero.net/jam/14/languages
> https://www.go-hero.net/jam/13/languages

For what it's worth - HackerRank (a similar platform) supports D 
(2.071.1!). Sometimes writing the customer support & complaining 
about outdated versions does help :)

https://www.hackerrank.com/environment