Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 05:22:57 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 04:34:16 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 02:43:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Other than memory safety rust doesn't have all that many 
>> virtues beyond any other language for guaranteeing correctness.
>>
>> Ada remains the top dog for properly critical software. SPARK 
>> still does not have many proper challengers in the space.
>
> Those who care for Ada, or correctness, are also interested 
> into bringing Rust into the game,
>
> https://blog.adacore.com/adacore-and-ferrous-systems-joining-forces-to-support-rust
>
> https://www.autosar.org/news-events/details/autosar-investigates-how-the-programming-language-rust-could-be-applied-in-adaptive-platform-context/

I'm not surprised, but I also think Rust has a long way to go to 
really compete on technical grounds with at least some aspects of 
Ada

Whether rust is useful or not depends on whether the program has 
to actually allocate memory or not.