Where will D sit in the web service space?

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On Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 15:25:25 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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.

If you don't have experience with an unfamilar language, you pick 
wrong decisions for the framework, which results in both 
short-term and long-term costs. To design a framework, you need 
years of experience with the ecosystem.

>>> 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.

Even Ada?
You mean contracts? Erlang was praised and chosen for projects 
for different reasons, though.