Why do you continue to use D?

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On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 at 11:12:08 UTC, aberba wrote:
> I personally can't use any other system programming language 
> due to the expressiveness and familiarity of D. Its familiar 
> and some syntactic expressiveness are just hard to get in other 
> systems languages...feels easier to model code in D.
>
> I don't use D primarily for work (Node.Js due to packages and 
> cloud support...web services), but D is my go-to system 
> language. Personally, wished I could use D for everything.
>
> I like the community here better, I like the engagement and 
> support. Yeah, it's not perfect but way better than anywhere 
> else I've been.
>
> What are you?

I'd love to use D at work for writing microservices and other 
backend code, but thus far I haven't been able to get my boss to 
agree (the main sticking point being a lack of a good OpenAPI 
library). The most I've used it at work is for writing scripts to 
parse different kinds of files.

Of course all my hobby projects are in D. I agree that it's hard 
to use any other language once you get comfortable with it 
(though I've been using Groovy at work and like that language a 
lot). I dropped C++ years ago and never looked back.