D for competitive programming

[urxvt1 via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 28 July 2016 at 22:07:44 UTC, 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 complaining about outdated versions does help :)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

I'm using open.kattis.com but unfortunately they don't have D 
support. They have
Go and haskell though. Yeah, maybe it's a good idea to write but 
D isn't popular and tech news sites are writing about rust, go or 
scala, so I doubt they are gonna add D. On the other hand they 
have prolog which isn't very popular either.