It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?
Paulo Pinto
pjmlp at progtools.org
Fri Nov 23 19:51:23 UTC 2018
On Friday, 23 November 2018 at 10:25:57 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 14:38:07 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 13:26:34 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>
> [...]
> Why hasn't ruby/rails, Rust, or Nim gotten backing from big
> players yet? Most things don't get backing from big players,
> especially initially. What you hope is to create a superior
> tool that helps small companies grow into the big players
> someday.
> [...]
They have, unless you aren't paying attention to the news it
seems.
Sun invested into JRuby and Netbeans support, while they dropped
support for
Netbeans, under Oracle's stewardship, they kept investing into
JRuby. In fact JRuby is what drives most of the Graal
optimizations regarding compilation of dynamic languages and was
the genesis of Project Panama, JNI's replacement project.
Besides being sponsored by Mozilla, Rust is now used in Visual
Studio Code, IoT Core native layer and an internal distributed
service by Microsoft. There are also ongoing projects from Oracle
and Dropbox.
Khronos is working together with Mozilla on a multi-platform 3D
API framework, which is built with Rust.
Four game studios, namely Ready at Dawn, Chucklefish, SEED and
Embark(former DICE/EA devs) have announced that they are building
their future tooling and engine improvement with Rust.
Rust was given the spotlight alongside C and C++ at Chrome
Developers Summit 2018 regarding the languages currently mature
for WebAssembly development.
GNOME is adopting Rust and collaborating with Mozilla to improve
the overall development experience when dealing with the gobject
OOP model.
Nim just got some support from Status, one of the companies
behind Ethereum, but I guess it isn't a major player.
So there is some support going on from them.
--
Paulo
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