D has 22 place at the Tiobe index

[Joakim]

On Wednesday, 25 December 2013 at 10:20:13 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 December 2013 at 09:32:39 UTC, ilya-stromberg 
> wrote:
>> D community, thank you for your great work!
>
> I would say it mostly due to limited number of people working 
> in dmd/druntime/phobos (names can be obtained from git log) 
> rather than to community which generates talks in newsgroups 
> and unimplemented DIPs.

Surely not everyone can contribute to the core tools, but the 
community can put out good D libraries/apps or evangelize D in 
their circles.

What D needs is a killer app, something that can really showcase 
its abilities.  Obj-C went from obscurity to top 4 in TIOBE by 
riding the popularity of iOS.  Ruby was nowhere before rails.  
I'm sure Android has buoyed Java in recent years.

Frankly, I'm surprised D hasn't produced a killer app/project 
yet, but then to really show D off would take a pretty ambitious 
project, probably something at least moderately mathematical or 
scientific to showcase its strengths.  Or perhaps an existing 
popular and efficient tool re-implemented in D and done better 
with its modeling power, say git or some better DVCS implemented 
in D.  AFAICT, Vibe.d would be my nominee right now.

As far as I'm concerned, Walter and the other core contributors 
have done their part: D is a great tool to use.  I know there are 
complaints about regressions and other bugs, especially from you, 
but ruby was likely much worse and that didn't stop rails from 
taking off, just ask Zed Shaw. ;)

I look forward to the killer app the D community comes up with. :)