How programmers transition between languages

Fri Jan 26 20:08:15 UTC 2018

On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 18:46:12 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
> On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 17:24:54 UTC, Benny wrote:
>>
>> What i found interesting is the comparison between the "newer" 
>> languages and D ( see the reddit thread ).
>>
>>  9  Go      4.1022
>> 15  Kotlin  1.2798
>> 18  Rust    0.7317
>> 35  Julia   0.0900
>> 46  Vala    0.0665
>> 50  Crystal 0.0498
>> 53  D       0.047%
>>
>> While i can understand Rust ( Mozilla ), Kotlin ( Jetbrain ), 
>> Go ( Google ).
>> Even Vala and Crystal are ranked higher then D.
>
> One niche I could see D establishing some popularity is in 
> GNU/Linux GTK desktop apps. Especially now that GDC will be 
> part of GCC.

With GNOME in the process of adopting Rust, I don't have big 
hopes for it.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Rust2017

https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Rust2017-2