<story><title>Specification for the D Programming Language</title><url>https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam0x17</author><text>I wish I had known about D 10 years ago. It&amp;#x27;s everything I ever wanted out of an LLVM language, but I feel like it&amp;#x27;s dying and the package ecosystem is tiny, which is crazy with how old it is. What they need is some new web design and docs and exciting stuff to make it feel like a new language so people recognize how truly awesome it is :&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bachmeier</author><text>&amp;gt; I feel like it&amp;#x27;s dying&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t control how someone else feels, but I can tell you your feeling is very wrong. Just a few of the things people are being &lt;i&gt;paid&lt;/i&gt; to work on right now:&lt;p&gt;Android support&lt;p&gt;Webassembly&lt;p&gt;Symmetry Autumn of Code projects&lt;p&gt;There will also be paid work on iOS once they find someone that can do the job (if they haven&amp;#x27;t already). And yet another annual DConf will be taking place in London in June.&lt;p&gt;These are just a few of the examples where folks are putting real money into the D ecosystem. The language continues to evolve (for example, moving to safe by default). This is by far the most active D has been in the seven years I&amp;#x27;ve been using it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Specification for the D Programming Language</title><url>https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sam0x17</author><text>I wish I had known about D 10 years ago. It&amp;#x27;s everything I ever wanted out of an LLVM language, but I feel like it&amp;#x27;s dying and the package ecosystem is tiny, which is crazy with how old it is. What they need is some new web design and docs and exciting stuff to make it feel like a new language so people recognize how truly awesome it is :&amp;#x2F;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Neku42</author><text>I found D 10 years before and it had the same stale feeling it seems to irradiating today and this is turning people away&lt;p&gt;The truth is it was good enough for most uses already but people waited out for someone to step up and make things better before they felt it would be worth trying D&lt;p&gt;D really shines if you do greenfield projects where you have the luxury to reinvent some wheels. Its surprisingly pleasant to see a lot of boilerplate one might expect to accumulate to just not be there because it’s either generated or is just not necessary because the language is flexible enough</text></comment>