On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 13:50:03 UTC, Michael wrote:
Most people at my university, outside of the computer science department, that are using languages like Python and R and MATLAB the most, are very aware of Rust and Go, but not D.
I'd say Julia is getting a lot more attention than Rust or Go for those users. And rightfully so.
I wonder if we do need to pay more attention to attracting new users just to get people talking about it.
I'm not sure why those users would be interested in D at the moment. D presents itself as a C++ replacement, discussions are all about low-level stuff, garbage collection, and efficiency, and new users are told to use Dub and learn about Git submodules. That's not ever going to appeal to the R and Matlab crowd. I have gotten others to start using D, and it was quite easy. Just make an R package containing D code, they install it, and then they call D functions from R. Few in this community understand that style of programming though.
