Andrei's list of barriers to D adoption

[Peter Lewis via Digitalmars-d]

As someone learning D, I thought I would give my insight in how I 
came to D.

My biggest reason for choosing D is the GC. I have come from Java 
and don't quite believe that I'm ready to manage my own memory 
throughout an entire program, but the ability to disconnect from 
the GC is a great way to start. I'm not saying that D should be a 
stopgap language, it has far too much potential for that.

I think that D definitely has many positives but that there is 
still work that needs to go into it. But all languages need work, 
no language is perfect.

I don't have much insight onto how the long term development and 
goals have gone, but I see that D is moving in a good direction 
and hope it will be around for many years to come. I also wish 
that D would have a wider adoption.

As it goes for tools. I agree work needs to be done on them but 
that it is not as important as a well done, competent compiler 
set and great documentation. D has great docs, and a quite 
competent compiler group.