D future ...

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 December 2016 at 06:48:09 UTC, Chris Wright 
wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 03:21:03 +0000, Jerry wrote:
>> There's only so much time and money someone can give. It isn't 
>> that appealing when virtually no other language out there 
>> suffers from this problem cause they have an actual market 
>> behind them.
>
> Most languages have this problem. Most languages you actually 
> hear about don't, because the marketing follows the money, and 
> you hearing about a language follows the marketing.
>
> D is unusual in how complete it's become without significant 
> corporate backing, and how popular it is despite lacking a 
> killer application.

Reminds me of markets.  A stock that has obvious disadvantages 
people will not stop talking about that keeps making new highs - 
that's not a stock you want to be short.