article comparing Rust and Zig, many points relevant to D

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 9 March 2021 at 21:06:46 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 9 March 2021 at 20:56:12 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:48:28PM
>
> 💡
>
> Great summary! I don't understand why D isn't used more. Maybe 
> it's *too* flexible for some people? 🤔

There is PL adoption research:
https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/socioplt/papers/oopsla2013.pdf

In this study they found the following drivers:
1. Open source libs
2. Extending existing code
3. Already used in group

See that "Particular language feature" and "Simplicity" are not 
really ranked high.

It seems over and over the one driver of PL adoption is always 
availability of "open-source libraries".

In pure cynical terms it can be seen is a capital transfert 
between those maintaining the open source corpus vs those reaping 
added value with the open-source code ; in that it's code you can 
rely on, but don't pay for maintenance (or barely).

But it can also signal a thriving/collaborating community (like 
with CPAN Perl).

In many of the new "weaponized" languages created by Big Corp, a 
large corpus of the open-source ecosystem is created/maintained 
by the Corp ; value is instead seeked in the lockin that language 
provides.