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by pjmlp 1117 days ago
It does, because many delivery projects chose languages based on the product SDKs, so if it isn't in the box, they don't come into the discussion at all.

Also in the meantime, most of the cool stuff in D is showing up on the languages that come on those SDKs (C++, Java, C#), weakening the argument to look outside of SDK supported languages.

Doesn't matter if D had it first, or if it has a better implementation, worse is better, when ecosystem, tooling, IDE and technical support are part of the equation.

So it remains a language for hobby coding.
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WalterBright 1117 days ago
D is shipped as part of the Gnu compiler project.

> most of the cool stuff in D is showing up on the languages

It's true that many aspects of D are copied by other languages, but badly.

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pjmlp 1116 days ago
At most GCC could be considered as a piece of the Linux SDK, but that wasn't the kind of SDK I was talking about, rather a full end to end product SDK.

Badly copied doesn't matter, it is one reason less to look for where it came from.

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