Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 22:10:18 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 21:16:28 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>> Not long ago, C++ was the perfect programming language that 
>> everybody was running to. Then came ~ Java, ....
>
> Well, C++ was never considered a good language by anyone. It 
> was shunned at universities by lecturers. Java was basically 
> Simula67 with a different syntax and some adjustments.
>
>> But the demand of the past shifted to the web and now the 
>> worst p. language rules the web (Sorry if you love JS too much 
>> but there is too much bugs). Now we are stuck in it, who knows 
>> until when before the world rushes to a new domain.
>
> I am actually starting to kinda like TypeScript 1.5… And next 
> gen EcmaScript will have comprehensions…
>
>> maturing, and I see it maturing like gold. When D grows up 
>> (even though it is doing powerful things in its infancy), you 
>> and I will appreciate that it did not rush into any domain.
>
> The contributor list to Rust1.2 claims 180 people were 
> involved...
>
> http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/08/06/Rust-1.2.html
>
> If you focus on a domain more people will have a significant 
> interest in making it work better.

Rust is also backed by a major organization.

I(and others from what it seemed) was hoping Facebook using D 
internally and hiring major D developers would have Facebook 
promote/champion D a bit, but this did not happen. D needs a 
major corporation to champion it.