I want to like Zig, but D still exists and feels like everything I want from a C-like alternative to C++ I just wish the rest of the industry had adopted it long ago. Zig has a strange syntax, and Rust is basically eating chunks of the industry, especially in programmer tooling across various languages as is Go (it powers most cloud providers and is the 2nd top choice for AI right after Python).

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sethops1 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I remember before Rust when Go vs. D was the topic of the day. I even bought a D book and was working through it when Go was announced, and it won me over. The difference maker for me was the standard library; working with Go was just easier, full stop. That and using names like 'int64' instead of 'double', because that's what my brain likes apparently.

	▲	giancarlostoro 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		100% agree. I really love D the language, if I could go back in time I would find Walter and challenge him that he couldn't write {insert half of the Go std lib packages} into the STD lib for D because its too hard and impossible, in the hopes he takes the bait. I would love to see something like a 'Framework' for D that is maintained by the maintainers, but isn't necessarily the standard library, because people get really touchy when you mess with the STD lib, maybe a way to test the waters before actually adding new packages to it, having an HTTP server OOTB with D would be amazing.

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pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

D would be great, unfortunately they never got the killer application for mass adoption.