D beyond the specs

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Fri Mar 16 14:50:26 UTC 2018


On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 11:44:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Would it be possible to find out at DConf in Munich why exactly 
> D is so popular in Germany (my impression) and in other 
> countries of Europe (and that general post code) like France, 
> Italy, GB, Romania and Russia etc.? I've always been intrigued 
> by the fact that it originated in the US but that it's in "the 
> old world" that a lot of enthusiasts (and contributors) are 
> found. It's just because you would usually associate innovation 
> with the "new world", but in this particular case D must have 
> struck a chord with the old world. Is it marketing and economic 
> / pragmatic factors that lead to poor adoption rates (and 
> sometimes outright hostility) in the US. Maybe, but I think 
> there's something in the engineering approach and the concepts 
> that "talks" to us in the "old world". I think this is an 
> interesting topic as regards both culture and technology. Any 
> technology is embedded in and the product of a certain culture 
> / way of thinking - and D seems to be a special case. Hint: 
> there's a Ph.D. in it ;)

Well, Algol, Pascal, Oberon, Component Pascal, VHDL, Ada are all 
examples of programming languages successfully used in Europe, 
while having adoption issues on US.

Even Delphi is still having regular conferences and magazine 
articles here in Germany.

Maybe we care more about enforced code quality? :)


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