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

[Walter Bright]

On 4/12/2019 12:35 AM, Tofu Kaitlyn wrote:
> 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.

It's up to all of us whenver we see a thread like that, to respond 
appropriately. Don't wait for someone else to.

For example, whenever there's a post about D on reddit, someone from Rust, 
usually Steve Blatnick, pops up and starts talking about Rust.