alt Hacker NewsD is like a forced meme at that point.
Never has an old language gained traction, its all about the initial network effects created by excitement.
No matter how much better it is from C now, C is slowly losing traction and its potential replacements already have up and running communities (Rust, zig etc)
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Python was first released in 1991. It rumbled along for about 20 years until exploding in popularity with ML and the rise of data science.
This is not true. It took about 20 years for Python to reach the levels of its today's popularity. JavaScript also wasn't so dominant and omnipresent until the Chrome era.
Also, many languages that see a lot of hype initially lose most of their admirers in the long run, e.g. Scala.
> Never has an old language gained traction, its all about the initial network effects created by excitement.
Python?! Created in 1991, became increasingly popular – especially in university circles – only in the mid-2000s, and then completely exploded thanks to the ML/DL boom of the 2010s. That boom fed back into programming training, and it's now a very popular first language too.
Love it or hate it, Python was a teenager by the time it properly took off.
Not everything needs to have "traction", "excitement" or the biggest community. D is a useful, well designed programming language that many thousands of people in this vast world enjoy using, and if you enjoy it too, you can use it. Isn't that nice?