On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 08:57:17 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/
A recent article where github programming languages popularity
and migration got analysed was very interesting but it showed
one noticeable thing:
A total lack of D even mentioned!!!
When looking at other language ranking sites, D always scores
better then Rust. Yet, Rust gets included in the ranking but D
is ... nowhere to be seen. It gets even a bit annoying when its
always Rust, Rust, Rust ... that keeps popping up. Seen it more
and more how Rust is simply trampling over any D messaging.
D... It really has no very unique feature that makes it
noticeable.
* No Galactic overlord ( C#, Go, ... )
* no GC language that people can push until people there ears
bleed ( Rust)
* no really unique features that people care about to set it
aside from C/C++, ...
* It has the kitchen and sink but nobody talk about the kitchen
and sink.
I know people will jump onboard and start yelling how D has
very unique features but from the "outside world" its always
the same response. While more people are downloading D and
trying it out, i barely see any independent D language blogs.
Not to be a downer but D really in my eyes is missing that
"unique" feature that people care about, that allows people to
blog about the language...
Well, at one point Andrei said that what is missing to make D's
growth explosive is a strong corporate sponser [1]. This seemed
sensible to me at the time and still seems sensible today. But I
don't know what (if anything) can be done to increase the
corporate community's interest in D.
[1] CPPcast, Oct. 27, 2015:
http://cppcast.com/2015/10/andrei-alexandrescu/ (at 25:30)
