Comment and Thank you to Walter Bright

[Andrew]

On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 16:29:58 UTC, z wrote:
> I could go on and one about how much i like the D language, but 
> i think one area people don't realize it shines is how it makes 
> people who fanboy other languages grind their teeth, they keep 
> on and on saying bad things about D(typically its lack of 
> popularity and GC) while completely fanboying their language of 
> choice, sometimes with good reason or bad, but no matter what 
> one thing i'm sure of is that people use and remember D for how 
> good of a C descendant it is rather than political/corporate 
> reasons or how eccentric/toxic its userbase can get.(*cough*, 
> other languages i meant, i won't drop names because i do not 
> want to sink to that level...)

I've found that people who invest a huge amount of emotional 
effort into a single (or a few) languages, tend to not really 
have much experience in software development. One's choice to use 
a language should really be driven by the features and 
performance of the language and its ecosystem, not by any 
perceived popularity. You just pick a language and use it.