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

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 December 2014 at 14:06:51 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> 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.

I think D clearly has some value for the business:
- highly expressive/productive,
- developer morale, "feel-smart" effect for better or worse
- high reuse
- lower bug counts when compared to C++

But much like there is hidden costs, those aspects can go 
unnoticed as "hidden cost savings".