Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

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On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 08:15:42 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 19:20 -0700, Walter Bright via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> […]
>> 
>> * The garbage collector eliminates probably 60% of potential 
>> users right off.
>
> And i bet over 80% of them are just saying this based on zero 
> evidence, just prejudice.
>
> Go went with the attitude "Go has a GC, if you cannot deal with 
> that #### off". Many people did exactly that and the Go 
> community said "byeeee". Arrogant this may have been, but Pike, 
> Cox, et al. stuck to their guns and forged a community and a 
> niche for the language. This then created traction. Now GC in 
> Go is not an issue.

This.

I think the biggest problem about D is it's trying to satisfy 
*everyone*. It's literally combining C++, Java, Python, and ~the 
like. At some point it even tries to mimic Rust! Trying to be 
everything at once is key po