Future of D 2.x as stable/bug fix, and what's next for D 3.x

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 at 09:20:26 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> C, C++, and Rust folk (who are the bulk of the anti-GC 
> community) are already firmly anti-D – I suspect no amount of 
> non-GC D is going to change their minds as to what D is as a 
> programming language.

I wouldn't expect people who have invested in Rust to give up on 
the borrow checker, but many past and current D programmers have 
one foot in C++ land.

Right now Go is cutting into both C++ and Java for light weight 
servers. Creating a competing runtime is out of scope for most 
languages. And heavy weight servers will not be implemented with 
smaller languages (more likely to go with industry standards). If 
you want to create a lightweight GC server today the most sane 
business choice is Go or node.js.

There are also many small languages out there that are trying to 
be suitable for that space: Crystal, Nim, V... that space is 
getting crowded.

Zig appears to do a better job of distinguishing itself, e.g. 
attract authors of emulators, hobby OSes etc.

(shrugs)