Let's market D: tell us how you're using it

[Darkfeign via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 April 2016 at 09:12:05 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I though Laeeth had a good suggestion on how to market D a 
> couple months ago, as the current front-page pitch may be too 
> general for some chunk of readers:
>
> "A set of 'channels' for different use cases might be helpful.  
> Eg bioinformatics, numerical computing, web, etc.  Both for 
> tutorials and setting out the advantages."
>
> I'd organize it by adding a usage page to dlang.org with a list 
> of popular channels like that, with a paragraph of info for 
> each and links to the wiki with more info about use in that 
> field. The usage page would have some links from the front page 
> pitch.
>
> As such, we need to collect info on how you all are using D 
> now.  If you are using D in some field like that, please 
> describe what you're doing and we'll add it to the website.

Just to add my usage of D:

I'm a computer science/engineering maths student studying 
dynamics in multi-agent systems which involves a fair amount of 
floating-point operations and serial agent communication so speed 
is quite important and parallelism isn't a big concern. I enjoy D 
for several reasons, but the big bonuses for me are tools like 
rdmd providing the ability to iterate over code like a scripting 
language, while possessing compiled speeds. I certainly like 
getting to avoid C++'s clunky syntax and really enjoy D's 
arrays/slices in particular. Given little dependence on 
pre-existing libraries, D is perfect for my use.