What do you think would be the key factors to drive mass adoption of D?
Dejan Lekic
dejan.lekic at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 14:46:38 UTC 2026
It is very simple - you will not see mass adoption if average
user needs to spend days, weeks even months implementing "missing
pieces" for her/his project.
D lacks fully tested and fully-featured packages that are
comparable in quality to packages for other languages. D
ecosystem has thousands of packages (projects) that do something,
but that something is in 98% of cases a very limited feature-set.
Kudos to those who went "extra mile" and implemented fully
featured packages.
I already hear people saying "those who want those missing
features are welcome to submit PRs". - Sure, but why would they
even decide to use D when they know they will spend days
fixing/improving incomplete D package(s), when they simply can
turn to Python, Go, Rust and find everything they need to get the
job done?
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