Article calls D "irrelevant"
Kapendev
alexandroskapretsos at gmail.com
Wed Feb 25 02:49:15 UTC 2026
On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 02:27:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
> https://www.makeuseof.com/why-is-c-programming-language-called-c-what-happened-to-d/
>
> "But, despite its achievement, D faced a classic problem. By
> the time D arrived, the world had already moved on. Enterprise
> companies were using Java and C#, and the world was still
> firmly locked into C and C++. A few years later, a language
> called Rust appeared which focused heavily on memory safety
> (the same principle as D), and it managed to capture the
> attention of the tech world in a way that D never quite managed
> — and effectively made D irrelevant.
>
> Today, D exists as a highly respected niche language. It's
> actually used by companies like Netflix and eBay for specific
> high-performance tasks. It's a great language, but it never
> became a king."
This thread will be one of those ones, huh?
Well, here we go again.
It seems to be more of an article about C than D.
I don't think the author has strong opinions about D or anything.
Just a comment from a person looking at the history of C.
More information about the Digitalmars-d
mailing list