D is easy to pick up, and has three really fast compilers. It feels like a very practical language.
Rust in comparison feels much less practical - glacial compile times and byzantine rules about manging memory. It may be 'safer' but that's a moot point when I find it all so unintuitive that I'm not going to be able to make anything with it anyway.
And I really question what these situations are where you can't have garbage collection in 2021. Hard real time systems, sure, but that's not what 99% of people are using rust for. Maybe people just like the challenge.
Rust in comparison feels much less practical - glacial compile times and byzantine rules about manging memory. It may be 'safer' but that's a moot point when I find it all so unintuitive that I'm not going to be able to make anything with it anyway.
And I really question what these situations are where you can't have garbage collection in 2021. Hard real time systems, sure, but that's not what 99% of people are using rust for. Maybe people just like the challenge.