It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[Paulo Pinto]

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.

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Paulo