Is D still alive?

[Walter Bright]

bearophile wrote:
> Walter:
> 
>> The reason that took so long was that few people were using DbC
>> effectively, so it was a low priority. I originally had high hopes that DbC
>> would produce dramatic improvements in code quality, but the real world
>> results were disappointing.<
> 
> After many years and many failed hopes, I think there is no silver bullet in
> programming, so maybe nothing is able to produce "dramatic improvements in
> code quality".
> 
> But even if this is true, some things are able to improve coding a bit, like
> unit testing, a well semantically defined language, syntax coloring, quick
> compile-run cycles, OOP for certain kinds of programs, DbC, and so on. Each
> of such things improve the situation only a little, but such improvements
> pile up and most programmers when have tried them don't want to go back to
> miss those things.

Unit testing has produced a dramatic improvement in coding.