On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 10:18:29 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote:
Rust has a OS being written right now. Does D has ? Anyone ever wanted to use D to write a OS kernel, I doubt it.
Yes, a group started on it, but I don't think it reached completion. Anyway, you see traces of interest around the internet, e.g. http://wiki.osdev.org/D_Bare_Bones
But the argument is fair, as long as Walter and Andrei are trying to position D as an alternative to C and C++. Then D should be evaluated on those terms.
However, Rust won't fare well in a head-to-head comparison either, because of the issues with back-pointers.
