Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 14:06:43 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 17 July 2015 at 12:06:08 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> There is always a relatively small set of best solutions for a 
>> given problem. One needs to find a rational and obvious answer 
>> to the question:
>>
>> For what domain is D the best choice?
>
> That's an incorrect question. The previous one was correct: 
> "which platform is attractive". Sometimes the best choice is 
> the platform you mastered, i.e. if you want the result quickly.

Not when you are engineering a new framework. Then you should 
look at the alternatives, perhaps build some pilots and pick the 
best platform in terms of technology and market.

Learning a new language is a relatively small cost, compared to 
the long term costs of not picking the best platform.

>> Ask yourself: why did a weird language like Erlang grow?
>
> Because it was a commercial project?

No. Because it provides robustness features most other languages 
don't. It was trashed and open sourced by Ericsson in 1998.