Is D really that bad?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 16:31:48 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 15:55:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 09:51:04 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> The language itself isn't bad, it actually quite alright, when 
>> I bough Andrei's book, I thought to have found a modern 
>> version of Modula-3 and Delphi.
>>
>> However in all these years, the direction was never clear, and 
>> its use at Facebook and Remedy didn't do much to help it grow 
>> adoption.
>>
>> Nowadays although D the language is quite nice, for my line of 
>> work, the ongoing improvements in Java and C# languages for 
>> low level coding + AOT + ecosystem, mean that in no way I 
>> would be able to convince my peers to use D.
>>
>> On top of that, for better or worse, Go and Rust are also 
>> creeping in into my line of work, as we are adopting 
>> frameworks written in those languages, making it even harder 
>> to try to advocate for D.
>>
>> So for me, D remains one of the languages that I have fun 
>> doing hobby coding.
>
> Same for me. But I never understand why. If D was called Rust 
> instead, would it be more popular or widely used? I seriously 
> don't know sometimes. It feels like fashion

Execution, knowing what it is supposed to be and double down on 
that.

D could have been the C++ companion for game developers, instead 
C# got that spot, because after Remedy nothing else happened, 
while companies like Unity were pushing for C# no matter what.