D easily overlooked?

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On Saturday, 15 July 2017 at 17:10:56 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 15 July 2017 at 16:52:51 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Sociomantic, Weka, EMSI, and a handful of others.  None is as 
> humongous as google or Apple, but then it's not like those 
> companies write everything in Go and Swift.  Those languages 
> are small parts of those giant corporations.
>
> To answer Mark's original question, the corporates get 
> interested when there are competitors eating their lunch with 
> new tech.  They don't actively scout out all the new tech, 
> they're far too lazy for that.  But when Sociomantic or Weka or 
> some new company
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> The no. 1 thing that will help D is people writing great 
> software with it and showing how wonderful D is.

Who is building the killer app?