Top 3 use cases for D

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Friday, 18 October 2024 at 20:06:42 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:

> In my own personal opinion, the major draw back of D was that 
> the standard library contained no GUI widgets. Yes there were 
> libraries, but unlike Java Swing, there was nothing officially 
> maintained and distributed as part of the core toolset. To me, 
> this was a major problem and why D remained a niche language 
> among work-a-day programmers. These days Javascript has taken 
> over as everyone's GUI dev language, so it doesn't matter as 
> much, but it certainly would have helped adoption during the 
> 2005 - 2015 decade.

Sure, D didn't distribute Tk like some scripting languages have 
been doing for a long time, but it was very easy to use. It's 
hard to imagine that being a dealbreaker. The programmers would 
have still needed to get approval from their managers.