What is the D plan's to become a used language?

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On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 12:39:01 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> This way a lot of people out there have built server side 
> systems with Go in record time. All the startups using Go are 
> proof for this.

I would be wary of extrapolating best practices from what 
startups do.
Startups succeed when they bet on the right market or propose 
something new and needed. I suspect technological choices play 
little part here, and that's why most companies using Go are 
startups: they could use almost anything and have the same 
outcome.

Successful rewrites from hyped language X to hyped language Y as 
pictured in blogs can also be misleading: almost all rewrites are 
rewrites of problematic systems in the first place, hence 
successful especially rewrites of young programs.