A Few thoughts on C, C++, and D

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 22:20:34 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

> I don't think Russel Winder was talking about enterprise code, 
> but for a language to take hold you need at least one 
> significant publicly visible application written in it.
>
> E.g. Go has Docker, Rust has a Firefox engine,  and so on... It 
> is taken as a sign of maturity.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with RW's post. My reading is 
that the goal would be to get D into the enterprise, but maybe I 
misinterpreted. If D as a successor to Vala leads to more 
projects like Tilix, that's great. However, an easier way to 
accomplish the same thing would be wrapping more C libraries, 
writing better documentation for Dub, and so on. Incremental 
improvements lead to incremental adoption of D. I'll also note 
that Vala didn't catch on, so being the successor to Vala by 
itself may not help D adoption.