D being rather unpopular (#23 at the TIOBE index of July 2017) at the moment compared to Google's Go, which is impressively climbing the charts at high speed, then I think we shouldn't worry too much about D's decline... ;)
On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 10:18:21 AM UTC+1, Russel Winder wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 12:21 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > > […] > > An excellent approach to all languages. If someone doesn't like "go", > > then use a different language. Or be like some people and invent your > own > > to address the perceived problems with all the other languages in > existence. > > > > Once a programming language goes into production and invokes "backward > compatibility" it rarely improves by evolution. cf. Fortran, Java. > Invariably, > improvement in programming happens by new programming languages arriving > on > the scene and being picked up (or not). Each programming language that > gains > traction invariably goes into decline as new languages pop up to replace > it. > > But remember COBOL, FORTRAN, Fortran, and C still have large codebases in > place even though very few people would consider writing new code in those > languages. Go, Rust, D, etc. will travel the same path after their period > of > being very popular. > > > > -- > Russel. > ============================================================================= > > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russ...@ekiga.net > <javascript:> > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk > <javascript:> > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
