Where will D be in 2015 in the programming language ecosphere?

[Rory McGuire]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:04:21 +0200, Justin Johansson <no at spam.com> wrote:

> Me thinks this both a polite question and a question due of realistic  
> answers.
>
> How doth thou respond?


Not sure, but what I do think is:

If D ran on ARM it would be a favorite for mobile devices, often programs  
are just too slow when done in Java/C# on a phone.
People then have to port to C/C++ to get their app running smoothly again.

Javascript programmers could very likely pick up D as their compiled  
language of choice because it allows them to program
in a similar way (closures, maps, delegates).

PHP programmers could also pick up D, again because it allows them to  
program in a similar way (mixing functional and OOP, maps, strings, ...).

Both javascript and PHP developers are abundant, which is partly why  
Facebook use PHP so much.