[OT] What are D's values?

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On Friday, 8 October 2021 at 11:00:59 UTC, Tejas wrote:
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> Chances of Rust taking over that segment?
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> Also C++ is still used (and must be used??) for applications 
> like photo and video editing s/w.
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> Will Adobe be better off using C# or swift or whatever instead 
> pf C++?

Rust is already partially eating up the marketshare of C/C++. 
There is a big drive to enable Rust for Linux drivers for 
example. For low level programming, I find Rust annoying but some 
people might endure it.

When it comes to applications, it is a mystery to me that C++ 
still is so popular. Probably mostly because there is an existing 
code base that companies don't want to rewrite. This is a great 
opportunity for D as the FFI is one of the best out there which 
enables a gradual migration.

C# is great for applications, for Windows. For other platforms 
I'm not sure what the status is and if you get the same 
performance. For cross platform GUI application, there isn't an 
obvious choice. C++ with Qt is still a strong contender but it is 
becoming proprietary. Let's not forget web applications, when 
performance is not required web applications do a good enough job 
at the same time becoming totally platform independent.

Paint.net is written in C# and you don't really notice it as it 
runs just as well as any C++ program.