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

[Chris Dew]

Does this just boil down to them not wanting to include D and it's their site?

(Yet they include ATS and Go.)

Regards,

Chris.

On 20 September 2011 21:04, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>