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Never has an old language gained traction, its all about the initial network effects created by excitement.
No matter how much better it is from C now, C is slowly losing traction and its potential replacements already have up and running communities (Rust, zig etc)
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Slowly it is going to be only skills.md. I agree with the sentiment, I really like D and find a missing opportunity that it wasn't taken off regarding adoption. Most of what made D special in D is nowadays partially available in mainstream languages, making the adoption speech even harder, and lack of LLM training data doesn't help either.
> lack of LLM training data doesn't help either. That shouldn't stop any self-respecting programmer.
Those that learn to do robot maintenance, are the ones left at the factory.
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Sigh. Ownership and borrowing are so much less baroque in D than in Rust. And compile times are superb. In a better world, we would all be using D instead of C, C++ or Rust. However in this age of Kali...
For those curious what ownership and borrowing looks like in D: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in...
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I think any presumption about what "we all know" will earn you downvotes.
Sigh. Ownership and borrowing are so much less baroque in D than in Rust. And compile times are superb. In a better world, we would all be using D instead of C, C++ or Rust. However in this age of Kali...
Slowly it is going to be only skills.md. I agree with the sentiment, I really like D and find a missing opportunity that it wasn't taken off regarding adoption. Most of what made D special in D is nowadays partially available in mainstream languages, making the adoption speech even harder, and lack of LLM training data doesn't help either.
D is like a forced meme at that point. Never has an old language gained traction, its all about the initial network effects created by excitement. No matter how much better it is from C now, C is slowly losing traction and its potential replacements already have up and running communities (Rust, zig etc)