Why did D leave the programming language shootout and will it return?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:44:33 -0400, Chris Dew <cmsdew at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found some links which show that D used to be in the
> programming language shootout http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Why did it disappear from there and can we put it back?
>
> It is a great sanity check for a new user to be able to see that a
> language and its implementation aren't a dog.
>
> I *expect* that D's performance is similar to C/C++ when used in the
> same fashion (i.e. functions and structs, rather than classes and
> delegates).  I would like to be able to confirm this.

The maintainer of that site has discussed why D is no longer included on  
the D newsgroup:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/The_Computer_Languages_Shootout_Game_120841.html
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Re_The_Computer_Languages_Shootout_Game_120847.html
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Re_The_Computer_Languages_Shootout_Game_120849.html

And various other responses.  The conversation happened on Nov-1-2010, so  
you can search the archives for it.

-Steve