My choice to pick Go over D ( and Rust ), mostly non-technical

[psychoticRabbit]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 15:06:35 UTC, Benny wrote:
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> I am personally confused with D's message.

I think that point hits the cause of your problem with D (along 
with your need to 'choose' something over 'something' else).

Stop looking for the meaning of D .. and start experiencing it.
(there is no meaning...to anything!)

Stop comparing D to other things, and just enjoy what it has to 
offer.
(tribalism not cool!)

And btw. one persons technical justification for using x, is 
another persons technical justification for not using x.

Plenty of experienced programmers  (who never used D before) now 
enjoy using D, even if they still have to program in other 
languages...in order to earn a living.

Too many corporations have big investments in other languages. 
Don't expect D to compete here anytime soon. That is the nature 
of business. If D is to take off anywhere, it will be in the open 
source community, and startups - not a google or facebook, and 
certainly never microsoft.

D has a lot of good and interesting things to offer to the world 
of software development, including an amazing, reasonably 
efficient standard library (with support from the compiler). It 
also supports all major platforms that matter (although it's hard 
to argue that windows 32bit 'matters' ;-). And there is no 
corporate backer making this all happen. It's just people who 
want to build something great, and give up their time to do it.

D has the benefit of having a compiler expert, and an algorithm 
expert in the core team. The advantage from this cannot be 
underestimated (which is why many are willing to look the other 
way when it comes to lack of significant management skills ;-)    
..and I'd rather it that way, than the other way (i.e great 
managers, who don't understand a thing). Both would be nice.. but 
who has that?

But D is on a road trip...it's not at its destination (I'm not 
sure it even knows - or cares - where its going ;-)

Just enjoy the road trip! Or jump out. It's entirely your choice.

But the road trip will continue, and those on it, will keep 
enjoying new sights...