Indicators and traction…

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 16:22:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> FWIW, Python hit pretty big success with a different approach: 
> Appeal to people's innate desire for instant gratification.

Perl and Python gained traction because they replaced multiple 
other scripting tools by a single one. What is D replacing?

Adoption of Python2 has taken a long time, it is _very_ stable, 
cross platform and has 60000 libraries... Python3, C11 and Perl6 
might end up never being widely adopted, and instead be 
superseded by a completely different language.

(You can compare Python2/C99 with D1 and Python3/C11 with D2.)