Walter here. AMA.

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.

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/...

]

igouy

>> Has there been any recent discussion on this?

https://forum.dlang.org/search?q=benchmarks+game&scope=forum

https://forum.dlang.org/search?q=benchmarksgame&scope=forum

e12e

Not sure why you're getting down voted was about to post something along the same lines (though admittedly linking to a couple of threads, not just the search). But I don't think everyone on hn would be aware of the d forums (nor that it's a rather magnificent piece of "groupware" with usenet and irc support on top of (or should I say beneath) a quick Web interface.

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed