Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Andre Pany]

On Sunday, 21 April 2019 at 16:44:03 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:36:36 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> Experienced C++ programmers don't seem to be deterred by the
>> prospect of having to learn D.  In fact they seem to see it as
>> a hard-to-manufacture positive signal about the culture.
>>
>> I received an email from one person peripherally involved in 
>> the
>> community.  I asked his compensation expectations and he said 
>> X,
>> but I can negotiate if you're really using D.  He didn't even 
>> want
>> to write D at work mostly but he saw it as a positive signal.
>>
>> I think the cost of learning D is small in relation to the 
>> cost of
>> having to learn the context and codebase, certainly for a 
>> younger
>> company.  For a large firm where everything is in place and 
>> it's
>> mostly maintenance possibly it would be different.
>>
>> There aren't so many firms I am aware of with a similar 
>> approach
>> in finance; being open to unconventional approaches like using 
>> an
>> emerging language is a reflection of that, but really whether
>> someone is a good fit in other respects but just is put off by
>> some technical choices - I have not encountered that so far and
>> find it quite difficult to imagine.
>
> Hi, I was referring to the fact that there is very little / no 
> demand for D programmers generally so it doesn't help attract 
> programmers who might be better off learning Go, Rust, Swift, 
> Kotlin etc.
>
> My own experience was that I chose C++ over D three years ago 
> in a project where D would have been nice to use, and I have 
> already stated the reasons in a previous post 
> [https://forum.dlang.org/post/crwhrrbdpaydnqfmdzfp@forum.dlang.org].

You are right, the demand for D developers is low but almost all 
companies demand high quality, maintainable software, written in 
a reasonable time.

D allows me to write exactly these kind of software in the first 
iteration. It is incredibly how fast I can create sophisticated 
software in D comparing to the well known popular languages.

Using these other languages it really feels like working against 
the language, while D supports me to express exactly the ideas in 
my mind.

Yes, there is definitely some starting investment, I know it. But 
that is nothing in comparison to using every day a language which 
slows you down.

I use Intellij with the D plugin. Code completion is done by DLS. 
Works great.

Kind regards
Andre