What do you think about this Benchmark without D?

[bachmeier]

On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 22:40:19 UTC, aliak wrote:
> D is not really that popular or known. Most of the time when I 
> talk to developers and mention D the response is "what's that?".

It doesn't help to generalize from the group of developers you 
hang out with. (That's an extremely common thing to do in 
programming discussions.) Languages like OCaml, Racket, and 
Chapel are hardly popular or known among developers at large. The 
choice of languages was a decision made by researchers who no 
doubt have heard of D.

> D might benefit from a product-oriented person on the team who 
> actually has a say in how to go about things, and where 
> prioritizations happen.

There needs to be a reason to use the language. High quality 
libraries, good documentation, an enjoyable developer experience 
are what will matter. F# isn't going to see a surge in its usage 
because it was included in the benchmark.