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On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 05:19:21 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> I saw we ditch the lot and focus on the large languages where D 
> can get some traction (C#/Java).

I don't see a chance to attack C# unless Microsoft officially 
adopts D.

Java is facing some uncertainty at the moment. The Java 9 module 
feature (Jigsaw) was forced against community/committee 
consensus. Oracle seems to let go (See EE4J). Java people are 
fine with GC, but really care for their IDE and D is lacking 
there.

With respect to GC, I consider performance a red herring. 
Everybody who really cares for performance has enough 
possibilities in D to achieve it. My short answer wrt D and GC is 
"It is not really an issue" which admittedly does not sound very 
convincing. There is a long answer which is basically the article 
series in the D blog and I believe it is convincing enough. 
People looking for a short convincing answer are just chasing 
some hype, ignore them.

I see opportunities for D in the web backend world. Microservices 
and serverless architectures make it (relatively) easy to 
introduce new languages. D needs more framework stuff for "easy 
and quick" microservices. D needs better IDE support, for example 
in hipster editors like VSCode.

I see opportunities for D in the embedded world. The people who 
try to use Java for embedded would be served very well with D. 
Crosscompiling and architecture support needs improvement though. 
I recently heard some praise for Go, which allegedly makes it 
easier than C or Rust.

I'm not sure about performance critical stuff. Maybe marketing 
C++-integration more could be helpful to get the people who rely 
on stuff like OpenCV, are forced to use C++ and dream about 
something better. We are fighting the C++ renaissance cool-aid, 
though. C++21 will surely solve all problems...