Top 3 use cases for D

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Friday, 27 September 2024 at 18:49:27 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> In your opinion, what is the selling point of D, the top 3 use 
> cases where D would be a nice fit?

Who are you selling to? That question only makes sense in the 
context of a specific application.

> D has struggled to find a niche (because it's so flexible?), 
> but is that also why it hasn't seen wider adoption?

Those are two different things. D has at least one wildly 
successful niche in interacting with C code. That is unlikely to 
result in wide adoption because that requires replacing Java, 
C++, Python, etc. Working well with C is nice but not helpful in 
getting on the front page of Hacker News because of some startup 
that's using it.

> What do you think are the top 3 places where you think "I could 
> use D here instead of {language} because {reasons}"?

Scripting and data analysis are two. Those are often done with 
one or a small number of programmers.