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

[CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 16:53:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/15/15 1:42 AM, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 07:58:47 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 1/14/15 7:19 PM, brian wrote:
>>>> My point was that there are fewer examples of *how* to do 
>>>> things in D.
>>>> This will discourage the new user, which will prevent it 
>>>> becoming a more
>>>> popular language.
>>>
>>> Yes, it would be great if we could crowdsource a cornucopia 
>>> of "how
>>> to" topics in D. -- Andrei
>>
>> D is the 8th most popular language on Rosetta Code(I think 
>> most of the
>> entries are from a single person - Bearophile), it's within 
>> ~25 entries
>> of C, Ruby, etc.
>
> Way to go bearophile! Could somebody please insert a reference 
> to Rosetta Code on dlang.org?
>
>> There's also the cookbook on the wiki that's unfinished.
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Cookbook
>> and the tutorial page
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Tutorials
>
> Well those need to be finished before we advertise them.
>
>
> Andrei

I suppose such things will never be really 'finished', but indeed 
they are of uneven quality, and sort of scattered.  Seems like a 
rather random collection of stuff, which is a testament to the 
project's open source nature.

Finally, one issue with using a Wiki in general is that it would 
be nice if any code snippets in D howto's, FAQs, tutorials, etc 
could be run through the latest DMD release so that it doesn't 
get 'out of step' with the current language. I suppose if most of 
the Howto's/Tutorials were written in DDOC the Howto/Tutorials 
could be run through the auto-tester ... but I am not sure 
exactly how this would be done/how difficult it would be.