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

[Lars Johansson]

On Thursday, 22 January 2026 at 00:57:04 UTC, MacAsm wrote:
> A few ideas that come to mind:

I been working in the big enterprise world my entire life as an 
‘IT  guy’ low and high. I think I know a bit about this topic.
I fully agree with Lance Bachmeier, but I add some comments.
First you need to differentiate between admin IT and tech IT. 
Most of you here probably belong to the tech group, engineers 
developing products one way or another.
I belong to the admin bunch, i.e. support operations,  
maintaining IT systems, developing programs within frameworks 
like ERP systems. The vast majority of IT workers are ‘admin’.
No admin in their right mind  would ever use a language like D 
(or C, C++ or any similar language).
Most admins never learn to program, those who do  in general only 
want to use the first language they learned. Today they probably 
learn Phython. )If you like expensive cars and smart suites you 
still  learn ABAP.)
D was never an option for the admins. Even worse less and less 
admin software development is done in the corporate world, they 
buy products from the software industry.
The techies I have discussed language with do not know D and are 
not interested in it because it is not C++.
How to promote D? Evangelists are necessary. Try to get 
universities interested (support Mike Shah he is doing a terrific 
job). Help bloggers like tsoding use D. Pray for a young genius 
develop something spectacular in D.
I'm sorry, I think the future is  rather bleak for D.