On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Ulrik Mikaelsson < ulrik.mikaels...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a side-note (and I'm clearly biased here so I hardly even take > myself very seriously), I think the non-windows os:es, especially > Linux, should also be an intentional focus-area. It is VERY difficult > to compete with .NET on Windows, and somehow I don't think we'll find > most of the efficiency-focused audience there, but if D can > demonstrate it's usefulness in key systems components in Linux, it's > likely to attract more curious right-minded developers. I'm not sure > exactly how to realize this, but there may be two opportunities in > quickly providing a lightwheight attractive desktop environment for > the upcoming Wayland system, as well as someone finally writing a > disk-indexing system that doesn't eat all your disk-bandwidth and ram > during the first week. > > I agree with you on this. For example, Linus Torvald hates C++ and probably for good reasons. Imagine if Linus tries D and thinks it's a good language and begins to use it in kernel development. I don't think I need to describe what would happen to D then. Sadly, GDC is not in a good state right now.
