Why do you continue to use D?

[Luis]

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 use D for toy or small personal projects. I only had the luxury 
to use it for work, to make a small tool to help to automate 
deploys on tomcat servers, downloading the WAR from a nexus 
server. And now these tool isn't necessary anymore (now it's all 
doing with a Jenkins taks doing mvn package + bash script + 
ansible)


Why? Well, what I like more of D it's the metaprograming power 
that gives CTFE + mixins and another little details that makes it 
great (slices, parallel for, NVI pattern, etc). However, I always 
have the sensation that it's unpolished and need to fix too many 
rough corners.