On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 06:19:01 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
As always, focusing on the users of the language tends to pay a lot more dividends than focusing on nay sayers. Luckily, that's how things tend to proceed here, so yay for that.
Feel free to ignore me then. I'll have to join this conversation as a naysayer: D is too little too late. It should have been competing with C++ since at least the early 90s. C++ should have **been** D.
Do you know why I'm not using D right now? Because I'm already invested in C++. Also I can get a prebuilt C++14 compiler running on a Jurassic-dated FreeDOS; meanwhile you've abandoned Windows XP. Where D doesn't tread, C++ persists unchallenged. What will happen when Microsoft drops Windows 7, are you going to drop it too?
So what can you do now, other than abandon all hope? You could standardize D ("ISO/IEC DLANG:2020"), officially endorse and support an "official" **standalone** IDE for it (so that it won't be a one-man two-user project), and cross your fingers hoping that C++ will run out of steam before D does.
Or, you can continue talking about GC and call me a troll. In which case, I'll be under yonder bridge.
