Is D Dead?

[IGotD-]

On Monday, 13 September 2021 at 18:31:59 UTC, Kenneth Dallmann 
wrote:
>
> C has been around for a long time and is the de facto language 
> of almost everything. To my understanding, Rust and D are the 
> only two languages that can compete.
>

It's a little bit more than that. Contenders to C are

C++
D
Rust
Nim
Zig

My criteria is that the languages work on bare metal with minimum 
library support. Some made Go work with small embedded systems 
but still requires a runtime so I don't consider Go to be a 
contender. D barely qualifies for this category as there are so 
many library functions that require GC. If betterC didn't exist I 
would have excluded D.