D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 14:32:38 UTC, JohnCK wrote:
> On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 12:00:41 UTC, Ozan wrote:
>> the TIOBE Index for December 2015 lists D in rank 23.
>
> You know what: for a language that is about 14 years old I was 
> expecting more by now.

Python was released in '91 and didn't reach the mainstream until 
2004-ish. Ruby was released in '95 and didn't catch mainstream 
attention until rails was picked up by many companies in 
2006-2007.

Programming languages taking a while to get adoption is very 
common. It takes a lot of investment from companies and 
programmers to learn a new language and build something in it. 
This is especially true when your language is a systems language, 
which takes much more effort to learn and use than a scripting 
language like the two examples above.