How programmers transition between languages

[John Gabriele]

On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 17:24:54 UTC, Benny wrote:
>
> What i found interesting is the comparison between the "newer" 
> languages and D ( see the reddit thread ).
>
>  9  Go      4.1022
> 15  Kotlin  1.2798
> 18  Rust    0.7317
> 35  Julia   0.0900
> 46  Vala    0.0665
> 50  Crystal 0.0498
> 53  D       0.047%
>
> While i can understand Rust ( Mozilla ), Kotlin ( Jetbrain ), 
> Go ( Google ).
> Even Vala and Crystal are ranked higher then D.

One niche I could see D establishing some popularity is in 
GNU/Linux GTK desktop apps. Especially now that GDC will be part 
of GCC.