What do you think would be the key factors to drive mass adoption of D?

[monkyyy]

On Thursday, 22 January 2026 at 00:57:04 UTC, MacAsm wrote:
> A few ideas that come to mind:
>
> -   A truly ****batteries-included IDE**** (something on the 
> level of Visual Studio for C# or IntelliJ for Java) — would 
> that make a big difference?

Impossible and not worth a damn. Templates and mixins will fight 
your attempts to parse it like the highly redundant, limited, 
bad, oo languages.

Just embrace the false positives of an language agnostic keyword 
highlighter

> Right now the experience is mostly VS Code + code-d + serve-d, 
> which is decent but still feels fragmented compared to 
> mainstream languages.

Strongly disagree, throw it away and get a dumb text editor.
> -   For corporate/enterprise environments in particular: do you 
> think a modern ****GUI designer****

Ui will be even more web focused post ai; its coming and native 
lost years ago to electron. D will not be undoing the trend.

Hope you all enjoy 1 gb web app tabs, and dom as a debugger.

> -   Strong ****corporate backing**** (big companies using + 
> sponsoring it)

I to would also like money for free, but this is not really 
actionable

>
> What else do you see as important missing pieces? Better mobile 
> / web / embedded? GC improvements or u/nogc-by-default push? 
> Something completely different?

Actually shipping data structures and algorithms. Its more and 
more ovisous other languages will not be catching up on 
templates; they aint even trying and c++ is c++. You can just do 
things.