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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by Veratyr on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:51PM (#14607835)
I don't think that's true. Despite their corporate life support and relatively young ages, Go, Rust and Swift are all in the top 25 most active languages on Github (https://gist.github.com/alysonla/e14c01ec7a0d2823e7317f7b58b...) and D is not (and never has been).

The masses have had a long time to adopt D and I wouldn't get my hopes up simply because it's not dead yet.

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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by WalterBright on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:54PM (#14608285)
So far 2017 has been a banner year for D, with the fully open sourcing of it and now the gcc incorporation!
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by kaleidic on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:56PM (#14608301)
Plus betterC and gpu target.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by WalterBright on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @07:22PM (#14608874)
betterC isn't quite ready yet, but I expect it to be game-changing. The DCompute project (supporting GPUs with D) is a huge deal, too.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by fithisux on Thursday June 22, 2017 @11:03AM (#14612710)
If it is betterC and not betterC++ then it will be a game-changer.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by nicwilson on Saturday June 24, 2017 @10:45PM (#14628365)
The Dcompute kernel language (which for the most part is plain D, the compiler is completely reused) has the usual set of restrictions that any kernel languages have: no exceptions, recursion, runtime (which is what betterC is about), function pointers. It still has all the the features that make D great, sane templates (will work across both host and device to a degree), ranges, CTFE (no need to precompile you lookup tables) and so on.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by nicwilson on Thursday June 22, 2017 @08:01AM (#14611596)
Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting DCompute into orbit.
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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by kaleidic on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#14608293)
Garbage in, garbage out. Github's language detection isn't perfect, and people in the D community simply aren't particularly focused on marketing and popularity contests. See here for example :

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]...

Not only is it not quite dead yet, it's growing rapidly : http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png

DMD downloads direct from home page only.

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