> If Mozilla had adopted D instead of developing Rust the world would have kept on turning and they'd be further along compared to where they are today.
D has the complexity of C++ with major drawbacks, (the stdlib was tightly tied to GC for example).
Just look at D's marketshare and its overall time on the market.
If you argument is that literally any Turing-complete language would somehow do then bravo for missing the point of basically every language besides asm.
D's market share is still much larger than Rust's, though clearly Rust is winning that battle in the longer term. Not that 'D' isn't without its flaws but those could have been fixed for a small fraction of the effort that went into making Rust.
D has the complexity of C++ with major drawbacks, (the stdlib was tightly tied to GC for example).
Just look at D's marketshare and its overall time on the market.
If you argument is that literally any Turing-complete language would somehow do then bravo for missing the point of basically every language besides asm.