D mentioned in Infoworld

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On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 17:49:18 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 16:13:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 15:52:11 UTC, Jean-Louis Leroy 
>> wrote:
>>> ...as a "programming languages you should learn now" - albeit 
>>> somewhat dismissively ;-)
>>>
>>> https://www.infoworld.com/article/3263395/application-development/the-programming-languages-you-should-learn-now.html
>>
>> Eh, never bad to be mentioned in articles like that, could 
>> encourage some to try D.
>
> D should have been under the "if you know Java" and "if you 
> know C#" too though.

I agree that this should be the case. But I can see the point of 
the author saying D is something for C++ people to look into.

For C++ developers having some exposure to D might be a plus in 
some job interview. For Java/C# developers this is not the case. 
Almost certainly in any job interview the people have never heard 
of a language named D. Being a Java developer some knowledge of 
Scala or Kotlin are a plus. Eventually they will listen to you 
for about half a minute why you like D. But in the end they will 
prefer someone with some working experience with Kotlin or Scala.

IMHO, the core D people are into system programming and from 
their background come from a C or C++ world. Also, it is hard to 
comine Java/C# with D. In C# it is easy to call functions from a 
dll or so file. In Java this will also be the case in some 
upcoming JDK. Whatever, to call functions from dll or so file can 
also be done using Rust or plain C or C++. In my geographical 
surroundings here people will just stick to C or C++. Neither 
Rust nor D would be considered.

So I don't want to spread negative attitude. But how to make D 
useful for Java/C# is a difficult problem.