Are there any notable libraries written in D which have gotten considerable use outside the D community?

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Saturday, 20 April 2024 at 22:26:41 UTC, Liam McGillivray 
wrote:

> But are there any exceptions that I should be aware of? Are 
> there any libraries that have been written in D, and then 
> gotten considerable use by programmers without D experience, in 
> programs not written in D?
>
> I would think that this would be technically viable with the 
> `betterC` option, though the difficulty would be in advertising 
> it's compatibility to non-D programmers.

You don't need betterC for that. You can call regular D from 
other languages just fine. I've spent years writing libraries in 
D that can be called from R (but just for my own use).

As for those types of libraries becoming popular with other 
language developers, well, I think that most anyone willing to 
trust a D library instead of a C library would have a strong 
preference to write their whole program in D. One reason C 
libraries are popular as extensions is because writing C sucks so 
furiously that you only want to write the minimum necessary in C 
and then get back to using a language with features.