D mentioned in Infoworld

[bauss]

On Thursday, 29 March 2018 at 16:10:55 UTC, Johannes Loher wrote:
> Am 29.03.2018 um 14:54 schrieb Bienlein:
>> On Monday, 26 March 2018 at 17:49:18 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I have to say, my experience was totally different. I recently 
> had quite many job interviews for jobs in which I would mainly 
> be using Java/C#. Because I like D very much, obviously the 
> topic came up in every single interview. Most of the time, I 
> was encouraged to solve the simple programming tasks they gave 
> me in D. I think they were actually quite impressed, both by D 
> itself and the fact that I am interested in such a "niche" 
> language. I believe showing that you are enthusiatic about such 
> things can help you with getting jobs much more than some 
> experience in a language which is "closer" to the language they 
> mainly use.
>
> Also I believe that D shares a lot of characteristics with Java 
> and C#, in particular when you do OOP with D. I think you could 
> make a case for the statement, that D is closer to Java than it 
> is to C.

I landed a previous job using .NET about two years ago, because 
of some D code I had written, so for me the experience is 
different too.