Future of D

[A moo person]

On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 18:28:02 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> On Monday, 30 October 2023 at 17:52:19 UTC, A moo person wrote:
>> personal code in D because I can't reasonably see a future for 
>> it with how D has gone. There is a perpetual unwillingness for 
>> D to change in any meaningful way.
>>
>> I still pray one day someone will fork the language and start 
>> working on a D3 to break the stagnation that is the current D, 
>> but its a pipe dream...
>
> In which languages could you see future?

A big problem is I have never once seen a job posting asking for 
D programmers. Tons of jobs still asking for c and cpp, tons of 
jobs in python or c#, even see postings asking for rust 
programmers now, but I have honestly never once seen a job 
posting asking for D programmers and that is with me actually 
going out of my way to search for them.

Nothing lasts forever, I assume eventually all languages will 
die, but D feels likes the walking dead at this point. All 
momentum feels like it was drained out over many many years of 
mismanagement. I can't in good conscious recommend it to people 
anymore even though I love aspects of the language itself so much.

I had a bit of hope when a while back there was that feedback 
request campaign, but after I saw the response to it I pretty 
much lost all hope. I know people here will disagree, I really 
resisted coming to this conclusion myself because I have sunk a 
lot of personal time and energy into writing D code. But that's 
where I am now after 10 years of hobby D programming.