How programmers transition between languages

[John Gabriele]

On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 20:08:15 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 18:46:12 UTC, John Gabriele wrote:
>>
>> 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

With Rust's extra complexity (over D) of ownership/borrowing, 
lifetimes, and no GC, although we may currently see a push for 
more Rust in Gnome for system-level code, I think D may beat it 
for writing *applications*.

I'm planning on learning more D, then trying out GtkD to see how 
it compares with Python + PyGObject for some little apps.