Why I Like D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 13 January 2022 at 16:33:59 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> ARC, tracing GC, whatever, but make your mind otherwise other 
> languages that know what they want to be get the spotlight in 
> such vendors.

Go has a concurrent collector, so I would assume it is reasonable 
well-behaving in regards to other system components (e.g. does 
not sporadically saturate the data-bus for a long time). Go's 
runtime also appears to be fairly limited, so it does not 
surprise me that people want to use it on micro controllers.

We had some people in these forums who were interested in using D 
for embedded, but they seemed to give up as modifying the runtime 
was more work than it was worth for them. That is at least my 
interpretation of what they stated when they left.

So well, D has not made a point of capturing embedded programmers 
in the past, and there are no plans for a strategic change in 
that regard AFAIK.