Blocking points for further D adoption

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On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 13:18:02 UTC, Artem Tarasov wrote:
> The largest blocking point to me is the community attitude. D 
> constantly wants to 'rule them all' instead of integrating with 
> other language ecosystems. This only recently started to 
> change, but only towards C/C++ and not in the other direction, 
> which is dynamic languages. PyD is only barely alive, and 
> nobody seems to be interested to take it to the next level—of 
> making it easy to distribute the created packages.

Fair point :/

> I'm speaking here from a researcher's perspective. One must 
> realize that in our universe, there is often no time to learn 
> yet another language, so people consolidate around Python so 
> that everyone stays productive, and this situation will not 
> change until someone rolls out a complete replacement for 
> numpy, scipy, pandas, and scikit-learn at the very least. (and 
> that won't happen any time soon)

We are working on it - see mir.dlang.io
The more people help, the faster it will happen!