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

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On Wednesday, 27 July 2016 at 09:28:49 UTC, chmike wrote:
> The reason I'm switching to Go is because
> 3. GC performance (no stop the world hiccups)

IIRC, there is a concurrent GC implementation used by sociomantic 
but it's linux only. (It uses fork() sys call)

> 4. Web server && IO performance (see: 
> https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks or 
> https://github.com/nanoant/WebFrameworkBenchmark).

Please, these are terribly outdated benchmarks. There was a 
recent bug causing Vibe.D to not scale to multiple cores at all 
which has been fixed.