Where will D sit in the web service space?

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 13-Jul-2015 18:55, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 15:10:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 07:32:57 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>>> Regarding D, there needs to be a story to be sold (e.g Docker, Rails,
>>> next Firefox,iOS, Android, WP...) why the language matters.
>>>
>>> On my little world, customers choose programming languages because
>>> they want to
>>> use tool X, framework Y or target operating system Z.
>>
>> Doesn't that mean the language doesn't matter?
>
> I guess you didn't get my point.
>
> iOS app => Objective-C. Eventually Swift.

Well, there is Xamarin C#. And any scripting langauge once you fit a VM 
  in Objective-C (superset of plain C). LUA is quite popular.

>
> Windows desktop => Mostly C#. Some C++ and C++/CX.
>
> Hadoop => Java
>
> Android => Java
>
> JSF => Java
>

JVM more preciesly I think.

> Sharepoint => C#
>
> ....
>
> That is how we get to choose languages. The elected one is a consequence
> of the ecosystem being chosen, not the other way around.
>
That is a valid point to a certain degree.

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Dmitry Olshansky