Why D isn't the next "big thing" already

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 15:11:00 UTC, llaine wrote:
> I'm using D since a few month now and I was wondering why 
> people don't jump onto it that much and why it isn't the "big 
> thing" already.

D2 is under active development. Bugs get fixed, bottlenecks get 
optimized, and features get added or improved constantly.

These changes don't usually seem like a big deal from one release 
to the next, but they add up quickly. Compared to what we have 
now, D2 was (in my opinion) unfinished junk a few years ago. The 
quality has improved a lot since then, but it will take time for 
the bad taste left in many people's mouthes by the unstable, 
incomplete early builds to be forgotten.

This is a common problem for open source projects: the dev team 
is naturally more enthusiastic about the project than others, and 
also feels pressure to market it in order to attract testers, 
contributors, and donors. The result is that the product is 
declared "ready" before it really is by the standards of 
outsiders. People get fooled by the hype, try a half-baked build, 
and sour on the project.

As long as the dev team continues to solve D2's problems faster 
than they're adding new ones, I expect that adoption will 
continue to increase.