Why do you continue to use D?

[Meta]

On Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 20:21:12 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 18:00:51 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 at 13:18:58 UTC, Jesse Phillips 
>> wrote:
>>> I think D is fine for the scripts we tend to have and if 
>>> every was fluent/enjoying D, I could see time taken to 
>>> implement something in D. But I'm working with QA and 
>>> developers which don't appear to be doing it for the joys of 
>>> programming.
>>
>> Good point. It's been said many times before, but the people 
>> who use D the most and post on this mailing list are a 
>> self-selected group that, by definition, are outside the norm.
>
> I don't think the core team wants it to remain this way. Unless 
> D is fine staying this way for another 10yrs. By then we'll all 
> be gone.
> <snip>

I *think* we're in agreement here. I just wanted to correct your 
inference that I meant some kind of "elite" super hackers when I 
said that the people posting on this list are a "self-selected 
group". What I meant is that the people who generally post on 
this mailing list are by definition not average programmers, in 
that they don't just learn the popular languages/frameworks you 
need to know to get a job and stick to those; they go out of 
their way to use more obscure and possibly experimental languages 
out of a joy for programming and/or taking new and interesting 
approaches to problems. That being said, a lot of the people who 
post here are far and away some of the best programmers I've ever 
seen, and I've learned a great deal just being involved with D in 
some small capacity.