Rust brags about closed (fixed) issues in their bug tracker

[Dicebot]

On Friday, 7 February 2014 at 14:26:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
> Seeing as Rust is more or less a direct competitor to D, this 
> is somewhat worrying. This suggests that the Rust devs (by that 
> I mean people in the community that submit pulls) are able to 
> iterate far faster than we are, and the gap between D and Rust 
> is quickly closing.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd - "77 contributors"
https://github.com/mozilla/rust - "392 contributors"

I am not surprised.

Also AFAIK Mozlla has a team of paid full-time programmers 
working on it, something D can only dream about.