D mentioned in Infoworld

[Chris]

On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:46:03 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 10:31:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 March 2018 at 06:42:29 UTC, Anton Fediushin 
>> wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being 
>> talked about." Oscar Wilde
>>
>> "There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own 
>> obituary." Brendan Behan
>>
>> Well, maybe the odd person will keep D in the back of his/her 
>> mind, also it says:
>>
>> "But it is a convenient way to taste managed memory and all of 
>> the “new” concepts without leaving familiar tool chains and 
>> losing the C library."
>>
>> So someone who's interested in that (plus C-interoperability!) 
>> might give D a shot. I was one of them a long long time ago.
>
> Yes that is true, BUT it also gives the wrong portray of D, 
> when in fact D could fit into most, if not all the categories 
> listed, but it's portrayed as if it only fits for C/C++ 
> programmers and again not as something serious, but as a 
> semi-useless toy.

I agree. However, these are misconceptions that D has had to live 
with for years. It's hard to get rid of them. On the bright side, 
D gets a mention while years ago it wouldn't even have made it 
onto the list, which is a good sign, because it shows that D is 
on the tech-radar. Apparently it is being talked about and 
mentioned elsewhere in the tech-world and the author felt he 
couldn't just leave it out.

Also, as this thread shows, people take the language descriptions 
in the article with a grain of salt anyway (and rightly so!). So 
I think, all things considered, it's a good sign that D got 
mentioned. I remember, in the old days people would wonder why D 
wasn't on lists like that at all. So there's some progress there.