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

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On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 20:36:35 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> all that cloudy thing is another hype. ;-)

It is hyped, but it is going to grow since businesses can save 
money on it. HP's The Machine also appears to be cloud centric. 
It is pretty much well established across the board as the future 
of computing.

> ahem... encryption algorithms are platform-independent. and 
> your server
> is running on known platform. am i missing something here?

Not a big deal, but I'd rather have the same symmetric encryption 
code on all platforms and be sure that the implementation is 100% 
compatible with no corner cases.

This goes for all libraries:

I'd rather go for libraries+bindings that are tested by 1000s of 
projects, not 50 or 100.

I'd rather use a language where there are multiple competing 
libraries covering the same functionality so that I have another 
place to go if one library turns out to be buggy.

If D is spread thin all over the place, then you simply will not 
get the kind of attractive eco system that Go is building.

Having only one option is good enough for a hobby project. Having 
only one option when you have signed a contract is a liability.

> the solution is easy: don't use things that have no C 
> libraries. C is "linuga franca" in this case.

If the customer wants a full featured web-forum for support 
integrated into his marketing web site... what options do you 
actually have? One really sucky language... Not Go. Not Java. Not 
Ruby. Not Python. Not D...

>> >> Reality check on stuff that could be relevant for a server:
>> >> https://github.com/trending?l=go&since=monthly
>> > yes, this is good indicator of "hypeness". that's all.
>> It is a good indicator of activity and direction.
> let me quote myself: "most people are morons." ;-)

We are all morons by thinking that morons cannot create great 
things...