Is D Dead?

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Sunday, 6 June 2021 at 13:59:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> But try to look at repos with high star count for D (and other 
> languages) on GitHub.
>
> Most of them are not bread-and-butter (except for some 
> web-stuff), I think?
>
> Is that because people tend to use only Phobos, Mir and Vibe?  
> Anyway, it suggests that people don't focus on building 
> libraries. So maybe people don't find the language easy enough 
> to use for that purpose? Dunno.

People don’t write libraries because it is easy, people write 
libraries when they need libraries. People don’t need many 
libraries written when linking existing C libraries is well 
supported.

> It could also mean that the more language-oriented programmers 
> have moved on to explore newer languages, and that D are 
> appealing more to utility oriented programers.

Why would language-oriented programmers produce high star count 
GitHub repositories? Wouldn’t you consider yourself a 
language-oriented programmer?

> The number of repos with more than 10 stars was lower than I 
> would expect.

When I find a dub library that covers my needs I am happy and use 
it. I’m not clicking through to its repository to star it. Maybe 
I should.

I am more concerned with my own productivity than the popularity 
of the tools that I use. I know I am not the only one to think 
like this.

My personal advice to people complaining about progress: spend 
less time on these forums, spend more time coding.

— Bastiaan.