Article calls D "irrelevant"

[Meta]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 02:49:15 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 02:27:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> https://www.makeuseof.com/why-is-c-programming-language-called-c-what-happened-to-d/
>>
>> "But, despite its achievement, D faced a classic problem. By 
>> the time D arrived, the world had already moved on. Enterprise 
>> companies were using Java and C#, and the world was still 
>> firmly locked into C and C++. A few years later, a language 
>> called Rust appeared which focused heavily on memory safety 
>> (the same principle as D), and it managed to capture the 
>> attention of the tech world in a way that D never quite 
>> managed — and effectively made D irrelevant.
>>
>> Today, D exists as a highly respected niche language. It's 
>> actually used by companies like Netflix and eBay for specific 
>> high-performance tasks. It's a great language, but it never 
>> became a king."
>
> This thread will be one of those ones, huh?
> Well, here we go again.
>
> It seems to be more of an article about C than D.
> I don't think the author has strong opinions about D or 
> anything.
> Just a comment from a person looking at the history of C.

Ya, the point is this public perception of D as a language whose 
time has passed. How do we change this?