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On Wednesday, 8 February 2017 at 21:41:24 UTC, Mike wrote:
> Suggesting D would be an exercise in futility, unless I can 
> create a notable project in D in my spare time that 
> demonstrates its advantages and appeal to the masses.  I tried 
> to do this 2 years ago, but D failed me, primarily due to 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14758

I read this comment from you on another thread too, and (caveat: 
I'm not working in such resource constrained domains as you are) 
it seems sensible. It seems like it may be a good GSOC project to 
modify dmd as you suggest elsewhere. Have you considered trying 
to find someone to do that?

> I believe D has the potential to bury all other emerging 
> languages out there, but only if it drops its historical 
> baggage.
>  At the moment, I'm of the opinion that D will remain an 
> obscure language until someone forks D and takes it in a 
> different direction (unlikely), or the D Foundation decides to 
> "reboot" and start working on D3 with a new, updated 
> perspective (more unlikely).

I'd love to see a D3, but that seems unlikely, and more unlikely 
if D2 languishes. It seems though that your issues are with the 
implementation, not the language itself, so if you got your 
wishes below

> Instead I suggest following through on things like
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12270 and considering 
> this proposal
> (http://forum.dlang.org/post/psssnzurlzeqeneagora@forum.dlang.org) instead.

wouldn't you be mostly satisfied with D2?