Article calls D "irrelevant"

[user1234]

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."

Discovering the _irrelevant_ D was a great step forward here. Of 
course there's the business POV but for me, as a basic human 
being, D was something important.