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

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On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 09:11:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> because Business Developers wants it that way. they are... 
> well... Doing Business, and they wants someone to maintain all 
> the libraries they are using. for free, of course. and what can 
> be better than to offload this burden to language developers?

... really? This is the attitude here.

> almost each time we hear about "D should have XXX in standard 
> library", it comes either from Business Developer,

The reason why people prefer official supported library 
functionality is because:

* Your guaranteed that this will have maintainers. Unlike 
alternative unofficial solutions.

* Guaranteed for a official stable API that will be similar 
across libraries. Cutting down on time for new developers to get 
familiar with the language.

* Having a load of different Independent libraries that "do the 
same but not exactly the same" is simply bad practice.

Case and point: https://code.dlang.org/search?q=mysql

No official library, some are not supported, some are duplicates 
with minor changes, no official API or standard... can go on a 
long time.

If your idea is that people need to sift past the junk each time 
and hope that the library they pick is still supported in 5 
years, your dead wrong. It does not work like that in any 
business environment. If you want a language to be adopted beyond 
hobbyist, you need to offer more then simply a language. 
Languages are a dime a dozen, well supported languages with a 
thriving eco-system that is a different market.

People seem to have it in their head that its a good thing to not 
have a lot of officially supported libraries. Well, from a 
business perspective it is simply not feasible to adopt a 
language, when it only offers, quote: "10% improvement", and the 
rest of the eco-system relies on those same (unpaid) people. 
People who one day can simply drop all support on  packages.

> or from Business Developer in Disguise. 'cause they always want 
> someone to work for 'em for free.

I have no problem paying as do a lot of people but do you hand 
over your money to projects where to attitude does not align with 
yours? I put money in several projects only to see no good come 
from it. I learn from my business mistakes.

Do i need a language that keeps pushing more advanced features 
while introducing regressions all the time. Or do i prefer a 
stable language with official supported libraries that is easy to 
learn for new employees and has no baggage holding it back. Pick 
one ... and guess what gets a language adopted by us.

I noticed after reading topics how there is a very clear group of 
people, with a real motivation to maintain the status quo. They 
have found their language and use any excuse to not gain a mass 
market audience.

Community attitude is just as important as the language. As a 
language D may been gaining exposure but if you dislike new 
people coming here and pointing out major and minor issues, then 
that exposure is useless and will only reinforce a negative image 
for the language. No point in putting time feeding trolls, time 
is money after all.

Zhù nǐ hǎo yùn! Wish you luck!