Article calls D "irrelevant"

[Mike Parker]

On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 10:23:42 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 08:53:33 UTC, Mike Parker 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 02:27:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, I advocated for it for 10 years at my old job, but 
> unfortunately nobody ever took much of an interest. I wrote a 
> bunch of tools that, now that I'm gone, will never be used 
> again. Granted Java was by far the most heavily used language 
> there, so go figure.

Right. Some people have gotten lucky getting it into their 
workplaces to one degree or another, but that's notoriously 
difficult. Worth trying, but don't expect much.

Broadcasting to the world is a different story, as that's how you 
reach people who are receptive. We are never, ever going to 
convince someone who isn't looking to be convinced. People who 
are already entrenched in a particular language are unlikely to 
make the switch, and very likely to pick a dozen nits when they 
try any other language, all of which they will cite as blockers. 
How many times have I seen that movie?

But there are plenty of people out there who are either open to 
or actively looking for something new. All it takes is one blog 
post or one video to pique their curiosity. Most of them will 
check it out and leave, but some percentage will stay.

Over the years I've seen people writing about how they found D. 
Several have said they found it through Andrei's 'The Case for D' 
article. I recall a couple people mentioning an old article in a 
German magazine, or a discussion on Reddit, etc.

I found it in a forum post on the old flipcode.com in the summer 
of 2003 from a guy who was evangelizing it because he hated C++. 
I did, too. And I was tired of Java, tired of C, and actively 
looking for something that could give me what I liked about them 
without what I disliked about them. The old digitalmars.com site 
(this was before dlang.org) turned me off initially, but I 
decided to come back and give it a go a couple months later and 
here I am.

That's why it's important for people actively using D to talk 
about and show off what they're working on, to show we're active 
and to reach the people who can be reached. One of those people 
you reach might start a business down the road and then we have 
another D shop.