On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 at 21:06:47 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 14:54:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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>> Rather than shying away from GC, we shold be promoting it. @nogc is really for special niches, that really shouldn't be a huge concern for "normal" code.  (But good luck saying this to the C/C++ knee-jerk anti-GC crowd.)
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> For years I avoided D because it was marketed as an alternative implementation of C++ and I didn't want C++. Now apparently the only marketing of D is as an alternative Rust, and unlike C++, Rust is not horrible. That's not a battle D is going to win.
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> Programming languages are adopted to get work done. Starting a thread on HN where D is competing against Rust while Rust is setting the rules is not a substitute for showing people that they can do stuff in D.

I agree 100%. Also, advertising D anywhere doesn't seem to be worth the time and effort since it's either complaining/lamenting (A lot of it's inane but some is certainly justified.), or it's "hey, Rust|{popular lang} blah blah blah".