Phobo's migration

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 23 June 2016 at 19:05:34 UTC, Meta wrote:
> The fundamental reason that D hasn't taken off yet is money, 
> plain and simple.

The fundamental reason for something not taking off is usually 
not money. Making a significant improvement on current practice 
(in any established field) is usually difficult to achieve and D 
does not significantly improve on the fundamental issues faced in 
software development. It is aiming too broad for that.

Money can make shit fly, but that does not mean that D does not 
have some fundamental design issues that needs to be resolved or 
that it can fly on it's own without becoming more focused.

Perl did not take off because it was backed by money or because 
it was well designed. It solved som very basic throw-away 
text-processing scripting issues by integrating some of the 
functionality of sh/sed/awk/c.

Php did not take off because it was backed by money or because it 
was well designed. It solved some very basic and fundamental 
web-server integration and accessibility issues in the mid 90s.

Python did not take off because it was backed by money. It solved 
some fundamental problems with current scripting languages (Perl 
and Php).

Money is no the key issue.