Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 22:17:11 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> 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.

Yes, well. Java caught on because it was heavily marketed as THE 
web-programming language by SUN. That might not be how it is used 
today, but that is what got it attention and traction.

C++ was essentially a cost-free upgrade for existing C-code bases 
that provided more scalable abstraction mechanisms. So C++/OO was 
heavily pushed by magazines as the next big thing (this was 
before templates).

Maybe you need an organization, not sure. If it is commercial 
then people might not want to contribute so it can work both 
ways. I think people have been quite reluctant to jump in on 
Google-owned open source projects. Mozilla is perceived as a 
non-profit, so it's good.

So, I think being the best tool in your domain makes people more 
inclined to contribute. It makes business sense to improve the 
tooling you use in production.

Most languages that are "recognized as serious" had a domain 
where they were perceived as the only good option when they got 
picked up:

- C++ had existing C code bases as their domain.
- Java had the web as their domain.
- Ada had government contractors as their domain.
- Javascript had browsers as their domain.
- Lua had game scripting as the domain.
- Delphi had rapid prototyping/development as a domain.
- Haskell had language research as the domain.
etc.