Article calls D "irrelevant"

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:07:45PM +0000, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> Over the years I've seen people writing about how they found D.
> Several have said they found it through Andrei's 'The Case for D'
> article. I recall a couple people mentioning an old article in a
> German magazine, or a discussion on Reddit, etc.
> 
> I found it in a forum post on the old flipcode.com in the summer of
> 2003 from a guy who was evangelizing it because he hated C++. I did,
> too. And I was tired of Java, tired of C, and actively looking for
> something that could give me what I liked about them without what I
> disliked about them. The old digitalmars.com site (this was before
> dlang.org) turned me off initially, but I decided to come back and
> give it a go a couple months later and here I am.

I found D because at the time I had been working with C++ for years, and
was hating every bit of it, and was actively looking for alternatives.
At first when I found D, I thought it looked interesting but the mention
of GC turned me off (I was a fool back then).  One day, however, I
stumbled across Andrei's book in a local bookstore, bought it on a whim,
and started actually trying out D.  It was gradual, but once I got over
my C/C++-inflicted GC phobia (Andrei's article on GC helped), I started
loving every bit of it.  Everything just made so much more sense than
the labyrinth of dangerous explosives that is C++.


T

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