How programmers transition between languages

[DanielG]

On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 20:31:30 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
> With Rust's extra complexity (over D) of ownership/borrowing, 
> lifetimes, and no GC, although we may currently see a push for 
> more Rust in Gnome for system-level code, I think D may beat it 
> for writing *applications*.

Adding to that, it was comments like this on the Rust reddit 
group that really reinforce my decision to stay far away from 
Rust for desktop app development: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7gg7lm/what_is_currently_the_best_options_for_gui/dqjo1c4/