[codyguy]

Dear Walter,

Thank you for the great work you are doing.

If you could get people to include D in the benchmarks / shootouts that get published it would help improve the popularity of D.

FYI - Thatneedle.com already uses it for part of the backend data processing workflow.

[WalterBright]

Isaac Gouy is the gatekeeper for the shootout, and he refuses to include D for reasons he's refused to elucidate.

I stopped publishing benchmarks myself 15 years ago as people always assumed my thumb was on the scale.

[igouy]

>> for reasons he's refused to elucidate

For the simplest reasons that I have stated to you many times!

Including every language implementation that the language author would like to have included is more work than I am willing to do, period.

Sept 13 2008: 63 language implementations were shown-

https://web.archive.org/web/20080913030117/http://shootout.a...

- currently, 27 language implementations are shown.

You could truthfully say "he refuses to include [at-least 30 language implementations]". In that regard, there's nothing special about D.

[codyguy]

I was a bit surprised by the inclusion of lesser languages and the omission of D !!

Please share the secret of your tenacity and inspiration in the face of such "setbacks". How do you do it on a day to day basis?

[e12e]

Has there been any recent discussion on this? I suspect earlier reasons might have included D not being packaged for Debian?

It can be though to shake "early license impressions" - D (dmd specifically) is one example, Ada (FSF GNAT vs AdaCore's GNAT Pro and Ada-gnat - GPL w/o runtime exception) is another.

[ed: if others are interested in "make your own measurements and host it yourself", relevant page with link to code etc appear to be:

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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