Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[silentwatcher]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 07:35:05 UTC, Tofu Kaitlyn wrote:
> Sorry for that title, but this is something I have been 
> thinking about for a while...
>
> I honestly feel like D is a failure. I kinda just wanted to 
> vent about it and see what other people think.
>
> I have been using D since around 2012 or 2013, instantly fell 
> in love, use to post on the forms a lot under the name Tofu 
> Ninja. I was convinced D was the future but since then I have 
> become disheartened. The biggest thing that makes me feel like 
> this is that in the 7 years I have been using D I literally 
> have never met another programmer IRL who has even heard of it. 
> I put on my resume that I like D and every interview I get 
> asked about it, having to explain what D even is because they 
> have never heard of it. I have never seen a job posting listing 
> D. Never see any projects pop up on /r/programming using D. It 
> feels like to the rest of the programming universe, D doesn't 
> even exist. Sometimes I see threads on reddit like "what's your 
> favorite programming language" and I always look for D but 
> never find it.
>
> And honestly I don't think that is going to change. I feel like 
> D has failed.
>
> I duno... what do yall think? Is D going to somehow explode in 
> popularity in 5-10 years? Am I missing some part of the 
> picture? Or am I right and if so what can be done about it?

if too fell in love with it, about the same time. i completely 
gave up on it.
gc, slow evolution and extremely opinionated group. i watch for 
the sake of the old days.
who knows it? sometimes i meet programmers who know about it, but 
when taking to them nobody plans to do something with it. its an 
gc experiment with endless features - and more coming. They and i 
feel - not usable in the company world.

cheers