Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Andre Pany]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 07:35:05 UTC, Tofu Kaitlyn wrote:
> Sorry for that title, but this is something I have been 
> thinking about for a while...
>
> I honestly feel like D is a failure. I kinda just wanted to 
> vent about it and see what other people think.
>
> I have been using D since around 2012 or 2013, instantly fell 
> in love, use to post on the forms a lot under the name Tofu 
> Ninja. I was convinced D was the future but since then I have 
> become disheartened. The biggest thing that makes me feel like 
> this is that in the 7 years I have been using D I literally 
> have never met another programmer IRL who has even heard of it. 
> I put on my resume that I like D and every interview I get 
> asked about it, having to explain what D even is because they 
> have never heard of it. I have never seen a job posting listing 
> D. Never see any projects pop up on /r/programming using D. It 
> feels like to the rest of the programming universe, D doesn't 
> even exist. Sometimes I see threads on reddit like "what's your 
> favorite programming language" and I always look for D but 
> never find it.
>
> And honestly I don't think that is going to change. I feel like 
> D has failed.
>
> I duno... what do yall think? Is D going to somehow explode in 
> popularity in 5-10 years? Am I missing some part of the 
> picture? Or am I right and if so what can be done about it?

D is a hidden treasure, not many developers know it. But once you 
know it, you immediately fell in love. It is just superior to 
other languages currently available, in my opinion.

At this point in time D got quite mature. It can be used in 
really large companies with great success.

In my opinion it is now at the community to tell other developers 
about this great language, create articles, create content. .
This is now the most important thing, advertising done by the 
people who uses D.

Kind regards
Andre