What is the D plan's to become a used language?

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 14/01/2015 12:34 p.m., brian wrote:
> I know this thread is a little old now, and I'm not the most experienced
> programmer by a long shot, but I'll post my 2 cents from the n00b
> persepctive.
>
> A question first: ... what do people actually have working in D?
> I find very few "working examples" of things I want to do. Or things in
> general. That I can read and say "oooh that's close to what I want, I
> can tweak it a little here and there".
>
> Eg.
> I want a program to write tweets.
> I can't just google "twitter example d" and find a nice starter program
> to connect a write a tweet.
> Do the same with "twitter example java" and you'll probably have your
> problem solved within half an hour.
> So in half an hour I have a java program, and not a d one. I'll probably
> make changes to my java one and grow that, rather than trying to rewrite
> it in D because I don't even know it will work.
>
> The same can be said when I try to do other things too:
> Like parse a webpage.
> Or connect to APIs.
> (maybe I'm constantly looking for things that other's don't do, but
> that's unlikely)
>
> So for me, it's getting easier to solve my simple programming problems
> in other languages because I can find examples that a) others have
> posted and b) others have the same issues I face.
> I can't find those things in D nearly as easily (is this a limit of
> searching the term "D" or dlang?)
>
>> try
>>      solveMyProblem(close_to_exactly);
>> catch(Exception e)
>>      writeln("this library sucks");
>> finally {
>>      do it myself with exactly what i need and little more
>> }
>
> I'd *love* to be able to do this, but if libraries don't work,
> personally, I don't know where to start most of the time. What if there
> isn't a library at all? html headers, oauth, blah blah. I may as well
> build a rocket. I have plenty of projects where I hit a wall (which I
> don't think is necessarily a language thing, but trying to use D to get
> to something else/do something).
>
> So in summary, from my perspective I find it difficult to solve the
> programming challenges I face, using D. Maybe that's a skill thing.
> Lack of working examples makes taking that first leap daunting.
> Lack of connectivity (to the things I want to connect to) is
> frustrating. Through googling, I'll be able to get something running
> quicker in another language than continue trying to get D to work.
> If I find these issues, and I'm moderately intelligent, I'm sure others
> have the same issues.
> I love the language, but if someone wanted a language to learn, I don't
> think I would recommend D. :(

For my next book I was thinking about taking it from the point of view 
of cook book. I want to do X, how do I do it?
Which is exactly what you are wanting.
Point being not language orientated. More feature orientated.