Misconceptions, and views on D

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:38:29 +0100
"IanWizard" <1.am.w1z4rd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I keep hearing a lot of people saying that they think that D is a 
> "niche" language.  Did I completely miss something, or are they 
> just misinformed?  I've never thought of D as a niche language.  
> I consider (and use) it as what Cpp should have been.  Like a 
> love child from C, C++, and Python.  I'd be very interested to 
> hear others thoughts on the subject, as well as other common 
> misconceptions.

D is a general-purpose language, so when people call it "niche" I
suspect they're simply referring to D's user base currently being much
smaller than C/C++/Java/Python/etc. The "niche" of D users.

OTOH, D can be (and often is) very accurately described as a
reimagined, cleaned-up C++, so maybe their line of thinking is "Ok,
so it's for C++ users that are unhappy with C++", which might a niche
*if* that were *all* D was well suited for.