How D could gain more traction?

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 15:49:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 April 2015 at 15:36:44 UTC, XavierAP wrote:
>> That looks like good architecture. I'm not sure if 2 and 3 
>> wouldn't be at the same level of (non-) dependency? Or maybe 
>> it's the image processing example you've used. In any case 2 
>> would have more priority because of practical reasons 
>> (necessity for a real-world standard library, and core-ness) 
>> and lack of 3rd-party alternatives.
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> Image processing is also a hard nut to crack. Think just about 
> height fields in 3D. Satellite images with N layer of high 
> resolution or too large to fit in memory etc. Then you have run 
> length encoding...

For Satellite image processing at least GDAL can take care of 
most of the memory/image handling stuff. I have some D Bindings 
(largely untested).

https://github.com/craig-dillabaugh/gdal