Article calls D "irrelevant"

[Meta]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 21:14:55 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> 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/
>
> Again, Im quite sure this is ai slop; its bringing up ancient 
> history and shamshing it together with (stupid and wrong) rust 
> talking points.
>
> This is will be an extra unproductive hell thread and should 
> just be locked. New hell threads should at least be about 
> modern talking points, and id be happy to volunteer for writing 
> a new one.

MakeUseOf has been around since 2006 and is generally regarded as 
a respectable publication, as far as I know. I don't think they'd 
knowingly publish an article that was written by AI.