[spookie]

I'm sorry, but shouldn't we critique Dlang itself instead of the constant comparisons with Rust?

Dlang has had significant work poured into it, and the project has delivered a quality language with safety in mind. I don't mean to be defensive, but these threads always seem to ask the same question, it's boring at this point.

[vlovich123]

I think it's fair game to discuss Rust in this context since there's a major effort underway to support writing in-kernel drivers in Rust. Unless you think the kernel will be a bazaar of languages, then it's useful to think about which language is the most likely to "win".

[spookie]

I think it would be of value, to a degree, if the kernel supported multiple languages. As some languages are better suited for some tasks.

This implies comparing them, so I understand your point now.

[pjmlp]

There are other OSes out there where D could eventually make a mark.

Naturally the whole issue is that there is no big movement regarding writing OSes in D for that to matter anyway.

Better luck using TinyGo, Java, .NET or Oberon in bare metal workloads (where runtime plays the OS role), as there are a couple of products for them, than D.