[Phoronix] D Language Still Showing Promise, Advancements

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 21 June 2013 at 10:10:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 14:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Is it just me or has Rust completely displaced Go as the go-to 
>> 'why D when we have X' thing on the reddit?
>>
>> It seems like not even a full year ago, Rust was rarely 
>> mentioned and all the versus hype was about Go. Will Rust fade 
>> away from D threads a year from now?
>
> Hype is usual reaction to anything new and uncertain. More 
> interesting question is "what will be left after hype ends?". 
> Go has fit its narrow niche and it became obvious that it won't 
> directly compete to something as wide-purpose as D. Lot of 
> people like opinionated restrictions and minimalistic design 
> but that does not deal well with generic usage. However it has 
> somewhat taken away one of many possible D niches.
>
> It is close to impossible to reason about possible niche Rust 
> may finally find because it is so new and in early design 
> stage. However, its toolset is already much more rich than Go 
> one and in that sense it provides more interesting competitor 
> to D.
>
> I am quite sure it will fade away from D threads soon, but will 
> it fade away from D landscape - no idea :)

It all depends what Mozilla and Samsung do with the language.

If you have powerful entities pushing a language down developers 
throats, it will get used. That is how many mainstream languages 
got where they are now.

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Paulo