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

[Kapendev]

On Thursday, 22 January 2026 at 12:50:05 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 January 2026 at 00:57:04 UTC, MacAsm wrote:
>> 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.

Just use [Pulsar](https://pulsar-edit.dev/) or [Lite 
XL](https://lite-xl.com/).
It's 2028 guys, VSCode is so last year.

>> 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.

Just adding a basic arena in Phobos would make D 100X better out 
of the box than most GC languages. Don't even need an allocator 
API for that. Just pass a buffer and let the user pick if it is 
from `new` or `malloc`.