D programming language

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dwknight

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#143721 24-Apr-2014 15:21

Hi guys,

Does anyone have any experience with D? Is it truly a worthwhile successor to C/C++? And if so, why aren't more people using it?
Thanks for any info.

TwoSeven

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#1030663 24-Apr-2014 15:27

I have always viewed languages like that as training wheels for people that want to program in C/C++. There isn't anything wrong with C/C++ so personally I wouldn't waste time on another language that pretty much does the same thing.

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#1030710 24-Apr-2014 16:53

Does anyone have any experience with D?

Not me.

Is it truly a worthwhile successor to C/C++?

Probably.

And if so, why aren't more people using it?

It is new and only recently reached a stable version.

But mainly the last major language developments to come along had massive vendors behind them (Sun, Microsoft) making adoption and widespread use almost inevitable.

Time will tell but I suspect the adoption path will be existing large vendors incorporating features into their existing products over time to solve similar problems.

solival

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#1032403 28-Apr-2014 10:22

When I tried to choose new language to learn I had a view on D. I decided to go with Go lang (from google) though. It's more suitable for my area (web-dev) as language to make fast services and also I believe that this language will be more popular soon. For me D doesn't offer anything that makes it better than C or Java. It's slower than C and less featured than Java. (This is my opinion, not scientifically proven fact ;)

New languages always has low popularity because they new :). No good frameworks, no vendors support, no IDE's, no debuggers, no libs, small amount of supported platforms. The trick is to catch perspective language and become pro before language become mainstream.