D isn't really competing with anything, it never took off. It already has a smaller market share than Rust while being twice as old (almost 20 years).
I'd call D a dead language. Can a dead language compete with a growing one?
I'd call D a dead language. Can a dead language compete with a growing one?
I'm on a Discord for Dlang that's quite active honestly. The D community is plenty active. Their forums and IRC. Maybe not as active as other language communities, but it's not made by Mozilla or Google which gets a lot more attention.
The already "use a different language" for most of their stuff.
Their D use is tokenish, the way you can find any bizarro, niche language used somewhere big. That doesn't mean the language is in any kind of widespread use, just that some teams in some big company or another adopted it - as outliers.
Source: I worked at Facebook for four years. My first diff at Facebook was even in D, in a project that was already effectively abandoned by the time I changed it.
It's really a tiny, insignificant minority of actively running code there, possibly zero by now.
It is competing for my attention and many others I guess.
> I'd call D a dead language. Can a dead language compete with a growing one?
I'm much more inclined to spend time with D than with a number of other popular languages if I could choose.
I don't know if I'm alone in this, but for what I know kt might become really popular in the future. (Look to Erlang for an example of a language that went unnoticed for a couple of decades or so.)
FWIW Rust is on top of my list of languages I want to master if I should get time.
https://github.com/benfred/github-analysis/#inferring-langua...
Rust by contrast is 16th and trending upwards year on year. So these D users that are missing from internet forums are also missing from checking in actual code.
You talk about the lack of facts, but I can link you to Stackoverflow's survey, Github's usage, Google Trends, and show you that D isn't doing very well. Where's your facts here? Where is this evidence of a large number of quiet D programmers?
So let's talk facts, I have, your turn.
I'm not sure how a language that is in decline, and hasn't grown much in its life, isn't a dying language (I'd argue dead at under 1% after that long).
> I'm not interested in being right on HN.
So you show up, call out other posters for having a "factless debate," to which they respond with facts. They then ask you for the same and instead of providing them to prove your point, you're suddenly not interested in a discussion on HN? That seems like bad faith posting to me.