How Nested Functions Work, part 2

[bearophile]

language_fan:

>There is no real interest in D outside the community (IMHO).<

There can be various causes:
- At University here they teach mostly Java. So young people know and like VM-based languages.
- Such people are "spoiled": they don't even want to touch a language that has no very good IDE and no good std lib and no good module ecosystem. D looks fitter for older people, grown with milk&C.
- Currently D isn't very useful for the web/mobile, where lot of programmers are.
- People today like a handy language, because often CPU efficiency isn't strictly critical (and when necessary Java is usually fast enough, and often faster than D code compiled with DMD). A language that already has just the one lib you need right now, is often what they prefer.
- D allows to program in a low-level style too, but most people don't know how to program in that style, don't know asm, and usually don't need it. So by design D may be a nice language. I don't know.

Bye,
bearophile