Is D Dead?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 6 June 2021 at 15:50:20 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> 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.

Many people write libraries as exercises. Yes, maybe C libraries 
have an impact.

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

Well, I just noticed there are not many D libraries that has been 
started in the past 5 years that have a high star count. I would 
assume that if people appreciate a library then they would give 
it a star? So, there were fewer new libs 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.

Yes, understand, but other languages also have package-managers.