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I don't think that's true. Despite their corporate life support and relatively young ages, Go, Rust and Swift are all in the top 25 most active languages on Github (https://gist.github.com/alysonla/e14c01ec7a0d2823e7317f7b58b...) and D is not (and never has been).

The masses have had a long time to adopt D and I wouldn't get my hopes up simply because it's not dead yet.

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So far 2017 has been a banner year for D, with the fully open sourcing of it and now the gcc incorporation!

Plus betterC and gpu target.

betterC isn't quite ready yet, but I expect it to be game-changing. The DCompute project (supporting GPUs with D) is a huge deal, too.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting DCompute into orbit.

If it is betterC and not betterC++ then it will be a game-changer.

The Dcompute kernel language (which for the most part is plain D, the compiler is completely reused) has the usual set of restrictions that any kernel languages have: no exceptions, recursion, runtime (which is what betterC is about), function pointers. It still has all the the features that make D great, sane templates (will work across both host and device to a degree), ranges, CTFE (no need to precompile you lookup tables) and so on.

Garbage in, garbage out. Github's language detection isn't perfect, and people in the D community simply aren't particularly focused on marketing and popularity contests. See here for example :

http://www.mail-archive.com/digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.co...

Not only is it not quite dead yet, it's growing rapidly : http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

DMD downloads direct from home page only.

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