TIOBE February 2016.... 15 ?!

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 12:21:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 12:06:30 UTC, Martin 
> Tschierschke wrote:
>> If something is around the corner, you must know!
>
> There are many corners. Some, like the corner of compiled 
> languages with automatic memory management and high level 
> features have moved a lot in the past few years (Swift and Go). 
> It is gone. There is no way for D to catch up with Swift and Go.
May be, I did not start to learn anything about these languages 
yet,
so I just looked on the Wikipedia pages, and I am not convinced.
Why? Syntax not C compatible, but for me this is a very strong 
argument, because everybody is defining his own similar elements 
and after "learning" some
Languages 
(Basic,Z80Asm,Pascal,Comal,Prolog,(x86Asm),C,C++,Perl,Php,Ruby 
(RoR))
I am quite happy, that D offers a 'known' syntax.
And the opportunity to use it for scripting - compiling very fast 
(#!-rdmd Execution).

By learning D, I can write a super fast web applications (vibe.d) 
+
stand alone programs for any purpose and even do scripting tasks.

Is there any other language candidate offering the same?

> The other corner, taken by C, C++ and now also Rust, moves a 
> lot slower and is in some areas incapable of moving. So I think 
> the current focus on interfacing with C++ is the right focus, 
> just keep focused on it. D needs to reach parity with common 
> C++ features and then do it better across the board.
Sounds right.

[...]

>> And a special second list, where people can vote, which topic 
>> of D (language or environment) need to be improved most?
>
> The historical challenge for D is a tendency to spread out. 
> Voting is no good, it takes away focus. Then you are back to 
> hunting down many corners, and D will remain one step behind.

The voting purpose is exactly to see what are the improvements 
really needed, to get this focus. I think, it is not so useful, 
that there are already min. 4 different DUB modules to access 
MySQL/MariaDB).