On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 13:18:02 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:
The largest blocking point to me is the community attitude. D constantly wants to 'rule them all' instead of integrating with other language ecosystems. This only recently started to change, but only towards C/C++ and not in the other direction, which is dynamic languages. PyD is only barely alive, and nobody seems to be interested to take it to the next level—of making it easy to distribute the created packages.
Fair point :/
I'm speaking here from a researcher's perspective. One must realize that in our universe, there is often no time to learn yet another language, so people consolidate around Python so that everyone stays productive, and this situation will not change until someone rolls out a complete replacement for numpy, scipy, pandas, and scikit-learn at the very least. (and that won't happen any time soon)
We are working on it - see mir.dlang.io The more people help, the faster it will happen!
