Should I invest time in D?

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On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 at 07:19:28 UTC, Lars Johansson 
wrote:
> After years of procrastination, I at the end of last year 
> finalized Rey Valesa's great dlang/vibe tutorial   
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/gnluupbilugncznkffuo@forum.dlang.org.
> I had planned to proceed with a deep dive into D.
>
> With the post 'Cloning D', it looks like Pandora's box has 
> opened.
> I do not want to be a part of such community and the future of 
> D does not look good. The alternatives do not look good either. 
> Immature, boring, too restrictive etc. Is assembler the choice 
> if you want to add a low level language to your Intel toolbox?
> I'm seventy one, so I do not have all the time in the world.  I 
> have procrastinated too long already. My humble question is 
> 'Why should I use D?'. I am greatful for any polite answer:)

The last D code that I had in production was deployed in 2017. 
I've maintained that for a while and then I've stopped using D in 
around 2020. I was never and still am not half as good as the 
rest of the people in this forum. Had this been 2018 and if you 
are a pragmatist and/or you don't like reinventing the wheel over 
and over again, I'd say D is not for you. Regardless of what went 
around, D has kept its integrity and its promise. More 
importantly, now it has a wider community, better tools, better 
ecosystem, I don't see any reason why D wouldn't be the tool 
you'd enjoy from now on.