[jpz]

Ah, just looking at this. When I was looking at D back around 2005 it was a closed shop run by one guy - I had the feeling it did not take off because it simply wasn't an open enough project.

It is a shame, as since then we've had go, Swift, Rust all come along and it is a lot more competitive for mindshare in that space... not to forget the merits of modern C++ (it is a far better language post 2011)

[fsloth]

"it was a closed shop run by one guy"

You do realize Walter Bright is a frequent HN resident :) ?

[jpz]

I don't criticise him, I just think the structure of the project meant it failed to really launch. There are people like me (20y+ C++) that when certainly I think of D, I think of it being a closed project. I spent quite a bit of time looking at it and thinking how great it was, but it seemed confusingly proprietary (which is not a great place for a programming language to be.)