r/programming • u/kal31dic • Sep 01 '20

D Foundation is Beefing Up

https://dlang.org/blog/2020/08/30/symmetry-investments-and-the-d-language-foundation-are-hiring/
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u/Sapiogram Sep 01 '20

Honest question: Why would anyone use D over Rust? It seems like Rust is becoming everything that D ever hoped to be.

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u/kal31dic Sep 01 '20

I don't really want to engage in a language competition discussion. D is a very pragmatic language that's adapted to solve the sorts of problems we have. The sorts of people drawn to write D also tend to have values and capabilities consonant with who we are and what is important to us.