How D could gain more traction?

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On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 09:39:09 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
> 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.

It is a good idea fix the pavement before you build bikes and 
wheelchairs. C++ is still fixing the pavement... Large sections 
of Python 2's pavement is largely unused. If anything D should 
focus on the basics.