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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/18/14 4:38 AM, bioinfornatics wrote:
> - range even the basic io as ByLine which implement range can't work
> with std.range.takeOne as is not an Input Range. While a basic function
> such as takeOne do not really need to use save method to work a forward
> range is enough.

Could you please give an example of this? Thanks. -- Andrei