How D could gain more traction?

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 09:39:09 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> Nowadays a standard library should include classes or 
> functions, not only for data structures, algorithms etc., but 
> also for: GUI cross-platform creation, graphics, 
> multi-threading at low and high level, SQL, XML, JSON, 
> networking on all layers from raw sockets to TPC and HTTP, FTP, 
> etc... etc.; and since the reason for native is performance, I 
> would also throw in some advanced math (linear algebra, 
> Newton-Raphson, etc.) If you don't agree that this should be 
> included in a standard library, I think you're kind of still 
> sitting in the C++ choir even if you prefer D.

Andrei Alexandrescu has said that he wants the kitchen sink 
approach for the standard library. While it might not go quite as 
far as you would like, the direction seems the same.