Is D Dead?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 13 September 2021 at 20:04:01 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> 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.

You might not consider it a contender, but business that matter 
do,

https://www.f-secure.com/en/consulting/foundry/usb-armory

https://gvisor.dev

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/sandbox-pods

https://blog.arduino.cc/2019/08/23/tinygo-on-arduino