Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

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On Sunday, 14 April 2019 at 19:28:54 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Compiling to C is a good option, but Walter has always been 
> very much against it.

LLVM support is more important I think, which D already has which 
is great. The question is if the project is going to spend 
resources on maintaining the code generator in DMD. My opinion is 
that we could stop maintaining it and go full LLVM.

>> Rust goes nuts if you talk to any other language.
>
> Really? It interfaces with C doesn't it?

Rust supports C interoperability, not C++. There are some third 
party libraries for COM support. As soon you cast to a pointer 
which you often do when calling C interfaces, Rust looses track 
of the memory and you need to manage it yourself. What you can is 
to transmute back again after the call. Strange design decision 
as most are of const void* type or similar doing nothing to the 
memory.