Article calls D "irrelevant"

[Serg Gini]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 15:33:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 08:53:33AM +0000, Mike Parker via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> I will never understand this thinking that a language has to 
>> be in the top N languages or else it's 
>> dead/irrelevant/pointless/etc.
>
> +100, me too!  I will never understand why some people are so 
> insecure that their evaluation of things depends on others' 
> acceptance of them.

Really? I always thought that this is super obvious.
This is the same as with "natural languages" - if nobody speaks 
the language, the language is dying. If the language has small 
people who speak the language - it is hard to evolve.
For example, now for ARM we had LDC/GDC, but for DMD we had 
issues..
Let's say next year RISC-V will become super popular.. it will be 
another issue.
What if the next type of XPU(not CPU or even TPU) will be soo 
different, that it will be supported only by new thing? no GCC 
and no LLVM. For example, only MLIR.
Same is applicable for library support.

You will need significant resources to build such support. Of 
course our GDC and LDC maintainers are real hackers who probably 
will be able to do that, but it will be hard.
And when you have a lot of "speakers" it is easier to evolve and 
adopt to a constantly changing world.

Getting back to natural languages this is the issue of small 
nations. People are learning:
1) English/Spanish - because they are the biggest populations
2) Chinese - good potential for future
3) Large groups like Italian, French, German, Korean, Japanese, 
etc
4) You are probably the linguist of specific region so you are 
study the language for research

But do you know many people who are learning the languages of 
Vanuatu or Micronesia?