Old but interesting link as to the low adoption reason for D

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 22:35:58 UTC, Ali wrote:
> why not try, for a change to show a positive attitude
> you must of have heard of something good about D that brought 
> you here

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> I believe the untold D one true calling, is to be a full stack 
> language, used for both high level and low level programming, 
> offering all the programming facilities in one coherent package 
> .. it will take time to get this right
>
> betterC fit well into this, in my opinion, by improving support 
> for the low level parts of a program
>
> There is no train that D, is trying to catch, so take your time 
> with D, continue using the other languages you find more 
> productive or commercial, and  give D 10% of your time

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> Again consider my suggestion, just give D 10% of your time .. 
> and use it for something positive

All good points!

It seems to me the more D picks up speed, the more newcomers post 
here complaining about lack of motion. If only they knew...