Where will D sit in the web service space?

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 13/08/2015 10:17 a.m., rsw0x wrote:
> 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.

Even so, D at Facebook is like D kinda still in it's infancy. Anyway. Do 
we really want newbies who think OOP is the best thing since sliced 
bread to come and try D out just because Facebook is using it?