We are forking D

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Sunday, 7 January 2024 at 17:47:37 UTC, monkyyy wrote:

> zig will probably win the c killer race

The race is over for a language like Zig that requires you to 
learn a new syntax and do things differently. Rust has the users 
that don't want GC, and Go has those that do. D has the advantage 
that you can write C code as you've always done, mixing in 
conveniences as you go. Predictions are always tough when they 
involve the future, but it's hard to see Zig gaining much 
traction when Rust and Go are established in that area. (I 
haven't looked at Zig recently. Maybe things have changed. I 
couldn't find a reason to use it when I investigated earlier.)