Maybe D is right about GC after all !

[Dan partelly]

On Wednesday, 27 December 2017 at 22:36:08 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 12/27/2017 8:57 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>> It's much better to have a monopoly of some niche or set of 
>> niches and to use energy from success to expand out from 
>> there, than to have a small market share of an enormous market.
>
> Back in the 80's, Zortech made a killing because we had the 
> only C++ compiler that would generate 16 bit Windows code.
>
> I found this out by asking the sales guys what feature of ZTC++ 
> was closing the deal - X, Y, Z, all the features I held dear. 
> They'd say nope. Customers wanted to use C++ for Win16, ZTC++ 
> supported that, sold!
>
> I learned a lot from that.

That a product which fulfils a need in a total void sells? No 
disrespect, but aint it a bit tautological ? Can you find a 
similar void today which is to be filled by D ? Better yet can 
you create one ?