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

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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

bearophile did an awesome job. hats off.

i've noticed there are some code that are not working such as the 
anonymous recursion example. [0] the first example there doesn't 
work but the second one works with DMD64 D Compiler v2.066.

let's get together and find out which examples are working well 
and which are not.

[0] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Anonymous_recursion#D