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by Verdex
4226 days ago
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Interesting question. I'm not intimately familiar with D, but it does seem like it's designed as a saner alternative to C++. How many C++ alternatives are out there? From my memory D seemed like one of the first major attempts to get away from C++. Maybe they didn't go far enough to meet peoples expectations. Or maybe they were too far ahead of their time. Anyway, when you said that the first thing that popped into my mind was Ewan McGregor going all "you were the chosen one" and actually I think that kind of describes my feeling about D. At first it sounded very exciting, but then it seemed like there really wasn't a payoff and I ended up feeling kind of bleh about it. I wonder how many other people feel similarly. Maybe D's problem is kind of an emotional one? |
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D had a "version two" new compiler issue, and a "let's rewrite basic libraries" issue that split the user base.
They are also bad at marketing (and no match for Google's visibility -- they don't even have a maskot, IIRC)
And they still lack some basic things to this day, including a way to go from download to compiling your code in a minute.