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[J Duncan]

Excellent thread! Ive said before that D *SHOULD* be the future of game 
development, and for some smart people it will be. Ive worked on several 
commercial game projects and it occurs to me that a large bulk of our 
engines were basically macros, templates, and patterns to implement many 
of the idioms D currently contains (and sometimes java); basically, to 
transform C++ into a 'better' language. And we still use C++ almost 
exclusively for performance reasons. This is why D should fill this 
space quite well. I tend to have a more laid back approach to all of 
this however, I believe we have a lot of work to do regarding the 
language infrastructure, and once that is in place the popularity will 
take care of itself. Build it and they will come.

Also I noticed one of the things sweeny mentioned in the DNG was 
persistent objects.... something we may be heading towards with DDL. So 
the future is pretty bright and I feel that once we have some of these 
world class features like reflection etc, many people will take a 
serious look at D. And on that note ive noticed some people will 
probably *never* be convinced that a language is better for them than 
c++, this has something to do with human nature that I dont fully 
understand. This is a big reason I stopped worrying about D popularity.

also as a big fan of QT, Id like to request a S&S mechanism; or some 
sort of messaging pattern in the language. I think this would take D 
"over the top!"