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by WalterBright 2949 days ago
You've never explained what your criteria is. Just that you didn't want to include D.
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igouy 2949 days ago
I always did want to include D — which is why we did include D — of course, we also used to include Scala and Clojure and…
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katastic 2949 days ago
I know you're publicly directly messaging, but as an outsider to the discussion, I don't see any actual mention in your posts why D isn't included. Just that it "used to be."

There are many of benchmark projects that include D and don't appear to be struggling under any kind of massive burden. For example:

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

What are your actual reasons for not keeping D... "scala... and Clojure and ..."? The results in the previous link show D as a massive competitor (sometimes 1st place beating C and C++) on both memory and speed. Wouldn't the purpose of benchmarks be... to highlight useful, highly-scoring languages? Isn't that one of the primary reasons people read benchmarks?

(The D implementations are also often smaller in lines of code, as per this benchmark project:

https://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-t...

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igouy 2947 days ago
>> I don't see any actual mention in your posts why D isn't included.

Do you see any mention at kostya/benchmarks of why ".NET Core" or Ada isn't included?

>> … benchmark projects that include D and don't appear to be struggling under any kind of massive burden.

Check when those kostya/benchmarks language implementation versions were released.

>> What are your actual reasons for not keeping…

I don't want to do the work.

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