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

[Serg Gini]

On Monday, 26 January 2026 at 06:14:51 UTC, Lars Johansson wrote:
> I'm sorry, I think the future is  rather bleak for D.

I think future of D is the same as we see it today =)
As somebody said in the discord:
"If it could die, it would already have died."

Which I'm not completely agree with that. In history we saw some 
long stories being finished like Nokia and Blackberry for 
example. But to make this happen a significant shift should 
explode the market significantly so others smaller or less 
flexible players won't be able to adapt.

First bell already happened with ARM architecture recently.
And this time GCC/LLVM helped D to "stay in business"..

But now LLM/AI wave is getting bigger.. and what if something 
completely new will come.. And it will be so new that nor GCC nor 
LLVM will support it? And only some MLIR for example or even new 
IR built from scratch will be required for this (cheap quantum 
light base RISC-V :D) ..
And only big langs who will have resources to port their 
compilers to this new arch will survive.
To be able to do this you need people and resources, and this is 
where popularity and adoption is able to help. Otherwise the 
rewrite to another stack could be easier/cheaper than porting D 
to the "new world".

But in which part I agree with the initial point - is that D is 
pretty "antifragile" in its niche..
New things are popping up, but many D devs don't really care - 
they like what D is offering to them for their small tools and 
hobby projects.. and this pattern is not going to change from my 
perspective