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

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 07:35:05 UTC, Tofu Kaitlyn wrote:
> 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'm at ACCU ATM and most of the people I've talked to about have 
heard of it,

> 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?

If the vision can be revitalised and the processes streamlined to 
extract value out of ideas then it has a great future. If not, 
well...