Article calls D "irrelevant"

[Mike Parker]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 02:27:35 UTC, Meta wrote:

>
> 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."

I will never understand this thinking that a language has to be 
in the top N languages or else it's 
dead/irrelevant/pointless/etc. There are numerous languages out 
there chugging along in their niches just fine, and D is one of 
them.

That said, in the absences of funding to hire a pro marketing 
team, the answer to this now is the same as it has always been: 
if you're using D and would like to see more people using it, 
tell the world about it. Write blog posts and post videos on 
YouTube. Give talks at tech conferences. Talk about your 
projects, the problems you've solved and how, the things you can 
do with D that are frustrating in other languages, and so on.

Word of mouth is sill the best form of marketing. I see stuff all 
over the place about other languages. Meanwhile, many of the 
people who could be sharing the same kinds of things about D are 
writing thousands of words about it, but they're doing it in the 
community Discord server.

We're in the process of getting the blog revived. Once it's up 
and running again, that's one place where you can write about 
your D projects if you don't have your own blog, but it would be 
really great to see it happening in other spaces, too.