Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 7 June 2016 at 08:45:14 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> never seen "this language is used in banking" to be used as the 
> main reason for choosing one language over another (outside the 
> banking, of course ;-).

True, positioning yourself as a toolmaker for banking/finance is 
basically saying it is arcane and slow-moving (like Cobol and 
Java).

It does not make you attractive for programmers wanting hardware 
access. On the contrary, any language that is stuffed into the 
Java category would make me highly sceptical when looking for 
system programming tooling.