D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/13/2015 05:29 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
>> "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to it, but
>> we don't know and neither feel like studying this silly D".
>>
>> This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. Scala has
>> somewhat managed to create its own eco system with Akka, Spark, Spray
>> in a specialized area like concurrent programming and big data. Also
>> because Scala has found some liking in academical circles (e.g. Spark,
>> Scala STM). I don't know how things will look like for Kotlin. Maybe
>> there will be a niche for Android development. For Groovy there is
>> basically only Grails as a killer application.
>
> Giving how D is similar to C/C++ I am surprised that non-familiriarity
> with D is a big problem.

Programming novices (ie, 90% of of professional programmers, ever since 
"java houses" and the web) and HR personnel don't understand that the 
vast majority pf programming skills are easily transferable between 
languages. They think it's all like Chinese vs French.