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0 pointsgavinray3y ago0 comments

It was a small personal project, I posted about it here some months ago fwiw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211482

D has no (FAANG) corporate sponsor and it does all things well/has no particular speciality, these two things make it hard to compete with marketing of other languages I think

There's a small but dedicated and active community

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agumonkey3y ago

> does all things well

a great feature IMO, helps communication in large teams I believe (in the imaginary world where teams use D :)

thanks for the link,

have the best day

gavinrayOP3y ago

I mean to say it's sort of a solid general purpose language/jack of all trades, with no particular speciality or thing it's deficient at

mhh__3y ago

This world is not imaginary

agumonkey3y ago

Even better then :)

Maybe it's like some languages that don't chase growth/viral/visibility but exist calmly doing work.

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0 pointsgavinray3y ago0 comments

It was a small personal project, I posted about it here some months ago fwiw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34211482

D has no (FAANG) corporate sponsor and it does all things well/has no particular speciality, these two things make it hard to compete with marketing of other languages I think

There's a small but dedicated and active community

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agumonkey3y ago

> does all things well

a great feature IMO, helps communication in large teams I believe (in the imaginary world where teams use D :)

thanks for the link,

have the best day

gavinrayOP3y ago

I mean to say it's sort of a solid general purpose language/jack of all trades, with no particular speciality or thing it's deficient at

mhh__3y ago

This world is not imaginary

agumonkey3y ago

Even better then :)

Maybe it's like some languages that don't chase growth/viral/visibility but exist calmly doing work.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse