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

[JN]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 14:24:05 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Mind you, the first thing a lot of people ask is "Can I use it 
> on mobile and is it painless to do so?". This is the reality of 
> things. Kotlin devs realized that. Language adoption is not 
> _only_ about language features, it's about usefulness too. This 
> is why they simplified Scala.
>

This is an unfair comparison. Kotlin is piggybacking on JVM and 
Java. First few versions of Kotlin were basically Java with 
Project Lombok annotations added as language features rather than 
awkward compilation stage hack. Only later did it start to emerge 
as a new language with its own paradigms.