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

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 10:19:36 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 08:54:34 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 January 2015 at 03:19:10 UTC, brian wrote:
>>>
>>> My point wasn't that there aren't ways to do things in D.
>>> 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.
>>> So if I'm looking for a new language to use, I'd probably 
>>> stick to the ones that have more examples.
>>
>> Does this help? http://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
>
> Just went through your list of idioms, noticed one mistake, 
> anonymous _nested_ structs/unions are in D:
>
> "anonymous structs/unions are allowed as members of other 
> structs/unions"
> http://dlang.org/struct.html

Actually it's more complicated than that, _some_ anonymous nested 
struct are in D, but not the ones you need to translate C.
https://github.com/p0nce/d-idioms/issues/10#issuecomment-70154005