All excellent points Gor. I'd like to point out that Java faced nearly the same issues (one difference is it had Sun backing it) and yet it overcame those hurdles.
I believe it became as popular as it did because of the JDK, not because of the language itself. (I actually called v1.0 a "toy language" :) The decisions by individual companies to use Java were tipped in its favor because so much free code is available in the JDK. There was a cost/benefit analysis done: the overall time to write new or convert old applications is going to be less than the additional time required to learn the new language , new tools, overcome bugs, etc., therefore go with Java. From a managerial point of view, it's simple: less code my team writes => better. Having said that, D is, in my opinion, ripe for creating a full featured development suite (DeeDk?). A lot of the language features themselves clearly support library writers in much better ways than Java. Of course, it is an overwhelming amount of work... John On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan < gor.f.gyolchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Preface: > > Back when i didn't know about D's existence, C++ was my favorite language. > <snip>
