Is D Dead?

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On Tuesday, 14 September 2021 at 18:03:32 UTC, Kenneth Dallmann 
wrote:
>
> D has a full set of OOP features, but it may not play as well 
> with pointers and
> bare metal code as Rust.

Yes and no. In betterC classes are disabled as well as TypeInfo. 
In betterC you have to use structs and structs do not provide 
full OOP features, only composition (there are hacks around this 
I've seen). For many systems structs are enough but sometimes you 
want full classes with inheritance and virtual methods. I would 
like that betterC could allow classes as well as TypeInfo. For 
very small embedded system TypeInfo might just eat up important 
space but for medium or large ones, TypeInfo can actually help.

In the ideal world I would like that the OOP features of D 
becomes more bare metal friendly. This also leads into the memory 
management discussion, but I'll leave that out in this thread.

I've also read the Rust is disliked for small embedded systems 
because of the restrictive memory model. People seem to flee to 
other programming languages for like Zig if it is not C/C++. I 
think D can position itself better here if we can get our act 
together when it comes to the memory model.