What is the D plan's to become a used language?

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On Sunday, 21 December 2014 at 10:26:45 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> to C++14 rather than D. Most C people will move to Go rather 
> than C++ or D.

I would not use Go for anything I would consider C for atm, but I 
will move some stuff from Python to Go when it is supported on 
GAE…

D could find it's own niche in a competing cloud solution, like 
Amazon WS, if it was deliberately targeted and thus the most 
convenient language on the platform.

Being the most convinient language for a platform is the killer 
app par excellence, but you need to be stable, production ready 
and focused to do it, which requires planning!

> Perhaps like Haskell, D is doomed to be a language used by few, 
> but
> having enormous influence on other languages that are used by 
> many.

What language-features are unique to D?

> achieves nothing. Having a reputation for internal angst and a 
> bad
> garbage collector achieves huge negative waves. A language 11 
> years
> old and still in the same "breaking change" situation as Rust, 
> yet
> claiming to be production ready isn't helping.

I think you overestimate how well known D is among the average 
programmer. If being old is the problem, then all you need to do 
is clean up the syntax and call it D++. However, being old is not 
the real issue.

> projects to create a sense of newness. This is the lesson D 
> needs to
> take from Go and Rust. Make use of hype rather than just 
> complaining about it.

Go has had stable supported releases for many years and supports 
doing stuff that other languages either make hard or slow. So Go 
is acceptable for commercial uptake even though there are quite a 
lot of annoying deliberate minimalistic design flaws that would 
otherwise turn me off: like being forced to use capitalized 
symbol names, not being able to convert bools into ints, not 
having assert, etc. Go is not a great language, but the 
developers are doing the right things: Go is stable, supported, 
focus and the direction of Go is clearly communicated ahead of 
time.