D is coming to a town near you

[Dmitry Olshansky]

It's just me sharing a positive experience.

TL;DR I have a strong (anecdotal) evidence that D is rapidly gaining 
popularity :)

I was well aware of D certain number of D enthusiasts from Russia,
but seeing one casually going by in the wild is another thing.

In brief I was half-sleeping in a train when a young guy
takes a seat next to me. He pulls out a laptop and powers it up.

Idly wondering what I'll see this time around (HTML/JS? Python/Ruby? MS 
Word, PowerPoint?) to my surprise I notice it boots Arch linux.

Cute... and then the guy starts X11 from the console... (dubious) with 
Xfce (+1 from me, though I'm with Cinnamon now).

The next thing he does: fire up a terminal and Geany.

Command line goes like:

cd Code/D

cd <some-project>

git pull

And then he's off furiously hacking on some GTK-based project written in D.
(I omit the details, though the repo is public)
Actually it's some kind of client-server file transfer utility, alpha 
quality it seems. I even checked the repo, seems like he's involved in 
some tiny software startup.

Bottom line for me this kind of thing beats TIOBE index any day of the 
week :)

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky