Article calls D "irrelevant"

[Serg Gini]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 10:45:37 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> I don't think he's intending any language in particular. There 
> are many, many of them. Examples from top of my head:

I think we should define "niche lang" better. As being 
non-popular doesn't make the language automatically "niche". 
Being "elegant" shouldn't be a niche. Also inheriting some 
syntax. It should be something unique and applicable probably.
And in case niche language - it should be pretty simple to "name" 
the niche.
So let's see

> - Ada
Niche - strong safety guarantees.

> - Agda
> - Prolog
> - Forth
Not sure about these one, but I think they have some pretty 
unique approaches

> - Fortran
Niche - HPC, heavy computations in math and modeling

> - OCaml
> - F#
> - Scala
Niche - strong FP in native, .NET and JVM worlds

> - Crystal
> - Nim
Not sure these 2 have specific niches.. First is "Ruby-like fast" 
and second "Python-like fast". But I think they are closer to D 
of "niche-less" ones