There is this topic today on Reddit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Normalized-global-results-for-Energy-Time-and-Memory_tbl2_320436353

And this site with results: https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/results

They tried 27 languages and no sign of D, aren't you concerned about this too?

Matheus.

On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 19:26:52 UTC, matheus wrote:
> There is this topic today on Reddit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Normalized-global-results-for-Energy-Time-and-Memory_tbl2_320436353
>
> And this site with results: https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/results
>
> They tried 27 languages and no sign of D, aren't you concerned about this too?
>
> Matheus.

I think it's something that people are generally concerned about, but it's not surprising.

D is not really that popular or known. Most of the time when I talk to developers and mention D the response is "what's that?".

D might benefit from a product-oriented person on the team who actually has a say in how to go about things, and where prioritizations happen.

On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 22:40:19 UTC, aliak wrote:
> D is not really that popular or known. Most of the time when I talk to developers and mention D the response is "what's that?".

It doesn't help to generalize from the group of developers you hang out with. (That's an extremely common thing to do in programming discussions.) Languages like OCaml, Racket, and Chapel are hardly popular or known among developers at large. The choice of languages was a decision made by researchers who no doubt have heard of D.

> D might benefit from a product-oriented person on the team who actually has a say in how to go about things, and where prioritizations happen.

There needs to be a reason to use the language. High quality libraries, good documentation, an enjoyable developer experience are what will matter. F# isn't going to see a surge in its usage because it was included in the benchmark.

On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 19:26:52 UTC, matheus wrote:
> There is this topic today on Reddit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Normalized-global-results-for-Energy-Time-and-Memory_tbl2_320436353
>
> And this site with results: https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/results
>
> They tried 27 languages and no sign of D, aren't you concerned about this too?
>
> Matheus.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Nim, Crystal and Zig are also examples that are left out.

matheus wrote:

> They tried 27 languages and no sign of D, aren't you concerned about this too?
i am happy. the less D participates in such i...ntellectual researches, the better.

On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 19:26:52 UTC, matheus wrote:
> There is this topic today on Reddit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Normalized-global-results-for-Energy-Time-and-Memory_tbl2_320436353
>
> And this site with results: https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/results
>
> They tried 27 languages and no sign of D, aren't you concerned about this too?

I haven't read the article (so not sure about details), but isn't the
comparison in the cited page inspired by the "benchmark game" problems
and languages shown in the following site?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/description/summary.html

If so, I guess new languages appear in the website only when new codes
are submitted for comparison (from users' side). So the situation may be
not "other people not much interested in D", but rather
"D users are not much interested in such comparison (so no codes submitted
yet)", e.g.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/mandelbrot.html

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/blob/master/README.md
https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=closed

# FWIW, I do not think the above "ranking" is very useful for
for determining fast languages in a practical sense, because the codes
often utilize very low-level things (to gain maximum speed) and so often
very ugly and not readable. The codes do not reflect the usual coding style
in many cases, IMO. On the other hand, I feel it is interesting to
see how different languages are used for the same topic (e.g. mandelbrot)
(so in a way similar to RosettaCode).
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code

Old thread talks about it. Circa 2009 (plenty of them since too).

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/hfubfc$jrr$2@digitalmars.com?page=1

On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 22:40:19 UTC, aliak wrote:
> I think it's something that people are generally concerned about, but it's not surprising.
>
> D is not really that popular or known. Most of the time when I talk to developers and mention D the response is "what's that?".
>
> D might benefit from a product-oriented person on the team who actually has a say in how to go about things, and where prioritizations happen.

D might be harder to include in such a benchmark. What kind of D code would be used? "normal" D, @nogc D, -betterC?

On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 at 07:45:12 UTC, JN wrote:
> On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 22:40:19 UTC, aliak wrote:
>> I think it's something that people are generally concerned about, but it's not surprising.
>>
>> D is not really that popular or known. Most of the time when I talk to developers and mention D the response is "what's that?".
>>
>> D might benefit from a product-oriented person on the team who actually has a say in how to go about things, and where prioritizations happen.
>
> D might be harder to include in such a benchmark. What kind of D code would be used? "normal" D, @nogc D, -betterC?

I dunno 🤷‍♂️ but I regret falling for the initial post and replying 😛 well played OP, well played... 😤