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

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 22 December 2014 at 10:30:47 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> More importantly: it makes no business sense to invest in an 
> open source project that shows clear signs of being mismanaged. 
> Create a spec that has business value, manage the project well 
> and people with a commercial interest will invest. Why would I 
> contribute to the compiler if I see no hope of it ever reaching 
> a stable release that is better than the alternatives from a 
> commercial perspective?

It is not clear that the core team wants commercial investment, 
that's merely my guess of how D might become more polished and 
popular.  AFAICT, Andrei and Walter hope to get to a million 
users mostly through volunteers, which is a pipe dream if you ask 
me, though they don't appear to be against commercial 
involvement.  As you say, without presenting a more organized 
front, maybe such commercial investment is unlikely.