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

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 13:56:01 UTC, ponce wrote:
> 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.


That is why I seldom buy into hype driven development.

Usually on our teams if a specific technology wasn't explicitly 
requested by the customer, whoever is bringing it in has to 
answer what is the business value to the customer.