I love D

[evilrat]

On Sunday, 24 September 2023 at 07:27:39 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>
> I wonder why D isn't more popular.
>
> Also we have arsd, so it's an automatic win.

I think major points is:

1) most devs are web related - this means that even when using 
existing solutions there is demand on single-file binary 
distributions that can be deployed on target node(infrastructure 
management, clouds, etc...) without hassle, sure it is doable in 
D but people are lazy so they just choose Go and won't bother, 
esp. with such poor IDE's and debugging experience in D.

2) Since this unity fiasco last week I see many unity developers 
coming to godot and ask if there C# feature for this or that, how 
can they drop everything they made in godot without doing extra 
work, and some even demand to drop built-in scripting language 
and make C# the only choice.
I can't objectively say anything neutral so no comments, but this 
situation shows the mentality as well.

(I must to say though there are wide gap between their skills, 
and truly experienced devs already showing some cool stuff made 
with godot on a level that I haven't seen before.)

3) Fresh programmers are looking at tooling first, more 
specifically jetbrains level IDE for the language they are going 
to use(or just invest their time to), this whole story when 
reading tons of reddit comments(and tech related QA boards) 
becoming very frustrating as people won't even consider using 
anything other than rust, go, or the very least C++, of course 
for that enterprise development there is basically only two 
options - Java and C#.
There is also demand on readily available components/scripts/code 
assets from non-tech people who just wants to make something and 
don't want getting their feet wet from dealing with all this 
"tech stuff".

So basically these 3 points are all intertangled, in short:
D isn't yet mature enough, it is not yet polished enough for wide 
masses, the convinience and tooling "just sucks"(tm).