Tsoding streamed about D

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 13:18:57 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 12:56:04 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> What D has missed versus those other ecosystems, is drawing 
>> the line that if that isn't what someone is looking for in a 
>> language, they can gladly look elsewhere, thus the 
>> schizophrenic outcome.
>
> Disagree, D is the a language that "doesn't get in the way" 
> precisely because it gives a lot of choice to users.
>
> Tsoding being able to work roughly like he's accustomed in C 
> with a lot of familiarity, implementing his favourite pattern 
> then modifying the compiler in less than 2 hours, is precisely 
> because D isn't very prescriptive.
>
> Yes there are two ways to do a lot of things (polymorphism, 
> errors, aggregates, memory management) but this is precisely 
> the point no?

How helpful has that been regarding adoption, versus the other 
ecosystems that do draw the line?