That’s the best part, it’s not made for industry specs!

D has a lot of other reasons why it haven’t caught on.

• The language is way too similar to both C and C++. In fact, you can get C and C++ code working in D with minimal changes (most annoying part is int meaning different things in both languages), and nowadays I can pull the conversion off on the regular. It’s like the only changes that were made to the language are making things more consistent, making things work better. etc. Rust is more like a language that is a marriage between C-style languages and OCaml. Rust is also a “functional first” language with the ability of opting out from the functional part, first when I’ve heard about Rust it was through this “fancy and new programming paradigm, that promises to fix everything wrong with programming”, and the D team wanted to be left out from making const the default mutability.
• The GC sounds scary for most people, who want to develop desktop applications. It’s rapid fast, will be even faster soon, and there’s tricks to either opt-out from it, or to get a @nogc thread going (using that for audio).
• Marketing issues. Walter Bright, while a genius compiler developer, is not a good marketing person.
• Formerly D was quite infamous for its toxic users, with Walter going infamous for his “let nazis code” line for a while. Allegedly, most of the toxicity moved over to openD, which made some people question why Adam D. Ruppe forked the language.
• The whole shenanigans around moving from D1 to D2, also Tango.

Only a Sith deals with absolutes!

Yes, but in today’s geopolitical landscape, some countries would tie the allowance of such launches to weird requests.

Israel denies the launch of European rockets, until support for Palestine is outlawed as “antisemitism”, and pledge to donate weapons to IDF for free.

Russia doesn’t allow rocket launches to other countries as long as said countries not outlaw “Russophobia”, which includes “recognition of Ukraine, the Ukrainian language, and Ukrainian people, as separate from Russia in any way of form”.

China demands the returning of its political refugees, or they will not allow rocket launches.

It’s actually super useful for old people, who sometimes like to “accidentally log off” and stuff.

For that to not be be poopy, you would also need an open source GPU. At least shaders are realtively simple devices, especially if you don’t go the VLIW route, the others are a different question.

Allegedly it’s also on ARM too, as they protect their Mali drivers like a dragon.

I hope too, but likely will be shut down by the US, for “unfair state meddling with the free market”.

Not originally, but they became the very evil they sought to fight against. Some are still holding onto the good fight, most just see it as a virtual online casino.

I’m pretty sure that Mint is capable of exceptions.

I’m already looking into organizing a secularist group, both lobbying in the style of SKG, both uncovering pseudo-secular organizations rebranding christian moralism as “common sense”.

I doubt payment processors are creating these rules because they’re afraid of Jesus

For starters, the biggest owners of both Visa and Mastercard are Mormons, so…

Can someone recommend me a hard drive that won’t fail immediately? Internal, not SSD, from which cheap ones will die even sooner, and I need it for archival reasons, not speed or fancy new tech, otherwise I have two SSDs.

Pirate Software is also a big liar, and a bad dev, who couldn’t finish his game in 8 years.

YanDev: “Thank God I’m no longer the most hated indie dev!”

Chuds blaming its “failure” on “transing a femboy” in 3…

That is impossible for many people for the same reason why they still on Xitter, etc. They believe, that with enough willpower, the people ruining our software infrastructure can be convinced for the better. And also many people still believe that if you criticize their “meme browser” made by the cool “don’t be evil” company, you’re a Microsoft shill forcing them to use IE, that is buggy and slow.

IMHO, old internet started to slowly die with the introduction of MySpace, Digg, and even 4chan, I call the period of 2006 to 2010 the slow decline era, then 2010 to 2016 the rapid decline era. 2016 to 2022 is the “classic centralized internet era”, and now we have the era of the “new centralized internet”, characterized by the peddling of far-right ideologies of these centralized platforms, alongside with the potential rebirth of the old, decentralized internet.

I prefer the term “spite-driven development”.

I wrote an SDL replacement but worse after SDL refused to work with audio streams for me even after a week of googling, it took me the same amount to get it work with WASAPI directly as looking up audio streams, instead of the many easymp3playback.dll type solution. Another one week was making ALSA working. At least it’s in D, so I have an easier time with development.

I also almost was involved with a YanSim clone development called “Love Letter: My True Feelings”, but shit just started to hit the fan (character designer just left), so I decided to not get involved as a coder.

Reality: Musk added “anti-woke” filters.