D for competitive programming

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 29.07.2016 00:07, Seb wrote:
> 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 outdated versions does help :)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

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