It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:00:30PM +0000, Aurélien Plazzotta via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 16 November 2018 at 07:20:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
[...]
> > > The creators and the main contributors of D are all C++ full-time
> > > developers some of them even members of C++ commities.
> > 
> > Traitors!  We must hunt them down and expel them!  Seriously,how can
> > this be a bad thing?  Some people are even members of non-native
> > code communities also!  Why wouldn't we want to have the benefit of
> > the idea interchange that results ?
> 
> Please, don't turn me into a parody :/ I don't see them as traitors of
> course, I know they put a lot of effort into the D language and it's a
> wonderful thing for our community to have several semi-gods among us.
> But my point is, I'm persuaded they believe much more in C++ than they
> believe in a future for D; the latter being rather a technological
> demo for something they would have hope at the beginning of their
> career.
[...]

You have been grossly misinformed.  Walter works full-time on D, and
Andrei *quit* his career at Facebook in order to work full-time on D.
What else do you expect them to do to prove their commitment to D??


T

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