God I loved playing around with D back in the day when I was in high school. It seemed like a no-brainer that it was going to be huge. It's such a shame it never took off. Incredible language.

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giancarlostoro 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's so damn nice, its a shame it's never taken off the way it could. I think there's still time to make it attractive to companies, but with people's increasing use of AI I don't think anyone even cares what language their model writes in, look at the insane uptick in Rust programming.

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vips7L 2 days ago | parent [-]

I try D almost every year, but I've never really gotten a working IDE environment with it. I'm not sure if it's issues with being on Windows or just the LSP not being that great. I really wish D was adopted as widely as Go.

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giancarlostoro 2 days ago | parent [-]

Which IDE are you trying to setup with D? I've not had any issues... You may try DlangIDE possibly?

https://github.com/buggins/dlangide

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vips7L 2 days ago | parent [-]

I've tried the intellij plugin and vscode extension. It never seems to work right. I remember there being lots of issues about not finding phobos/the standard library.

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giancarlostoro 2 days ago | parent [-]

I dont use VS Code, I think I used Sublime and Spacemacs otherwise I used uh one of the other Linux editors I forget which one tbh

	▲	vips7L a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'll try again with sublime next time. I suspect its something to do with how the package manager installs the compiler/runtime.

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pjmlp 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Be it a lesson that having an adoption lever matters.

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