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

[Kapendev]

On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 19:34:25 UTC, Sergey wrote:
> On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 15:04:33 UTC, Juraj wrote:
>>
>> For me it comes to  ergonomics of the language. I also hate 
>> when I have to use 4 languages in one project. I know some 
>> people do not mind, but I do.
>
> Its good that your area is allowing to do that. Many areas just 
> cant exist with monolanguage approach. It is economically 
> unreasonable.
>
>> When I develop, I do not chase popularity, I chase my own joy 
>> of creation, for that I need a language that let me express 
>> myself.
>
> Again its good that it works for you, but some areas really 
> need some libraries.
> And popularity is giving these libraries from official project 
> owners.
> Also it is giving the knowledge of "battle tested" libraries, 
> and not "used by 2 persons for hobby projects". It is also 
> important.
> And some areas are different from low-level embedding systems - 
> there is no C libraries there.

To be honest (again), a lot of code out there feels like a hobby 
project, except without the joy that usually makes hobby projects 
worthwhile.
It's *crazy* how bad software is in 2029...