It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[welkam]

On Thursday, 22 November 2018 at 10:08:06 UTC, Chris wrote:

> Yawn. Same strategy again: "Contribute or shut up!". Groundhog 
> Day.

I have been long enough on this forum/mailing list to have seen 
the same thing happen over and over again. Just like you say - 
Groundhog Day but I see different thing. I see people who dont 
understand how little available resources D have and who think 
that things are the way they are not because of lack of resources 
but because people are stupid. They go on forum/mailing list 
having wrong preconceptions thinking that if things are bad 
because of stupid people and if I enlighten those stupid people 
things will get better. So they make post.

But then people from community try to explain to them that its 
lack of resources that is responsible and if you want for thing 
to change either contribute your own work or donate money. Sadly 
this kind of response is minority of post on thread and most 
people are getting carried by secondary topics.

People dont like this response and get frustrated and leave this 
forum after few more post of their own, but few begin to 
understand that D doesnt live to its potential because people 
rather use D than contribute to this project and if there is a 
problem they just complain instead of working on solving it. Now 
here things get funny. Well at least to me. In essence they are 
complaining that other people act just like them without 
realizing that they complain about them self.


D project has huge surface area - from low level to web 
development, from game consoles to mobile. People dont want for 
things just to run but the whole experience to be excellent. 
Thats not possible with just $1605 per month. we need more than 
10x more than that.

"D foundation expenses for H1 2017 have averaged at $1605 per 
month."