D is our last hope

[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 18 December 2023 at 16:42:42 UTC, Hors wrote:

>
> Tbh It's cool to see D has some uses, but why just "some" when 
> clearly it has potential to be something bigger, thats why we 
> complaint

People have been proclaiming that D is dead or predicting its 
demise ever since I've been in the community. Twenty years later, 
it's still here, still evolving, the community is still slowly 
and steadily growing, and people are still getting work done with 
it.

There's nothing wrong with complaining. That's how things 
improve. But anyone interested in seeing the rate of growth and 
improvement pick up speed can publish blog articles about their 
projects and share them on social media, tweet regularly about 
what they're working on, show off their projects on YouTube, 
submit talks to tech conferences where it's appropriate to do so, 
talk to friends and colleagues about the joys of programming in 
D...

D isn't for everyone and never will be. Trying to make everyone 
happy is an exercise in futility. But the ones who for whom it 
does scratch that itch can do a lot of good just by telling the 
world about it. The more of us doing that, the better it will be 
for all of us.