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

[Serg Gini]

On Wednesday, 28 January 2026 at 06:17:01 UTC, slimper wrote:
> What was written above is a consequence of why D didn't become 
> popular 10-15 years ago.
>
> I agree with everything mentioned above. But it's strange that 
> no one has mentioned what I consider to be the main problems 
> behind D's lack of popularity. The half-baked implementation of 
> the compiler and standard library. The indecisiveness in 
> choosing concepts, APIs, and development direction.
>
> D is an excellent language, but it tries to be too many things 
> at once. As a result, the already limited resources get spread 
> even thinner, and quality suffers.

This was already mentioned million times yeah..

But I think there is a trick which could try to switch cons into 
pros by shifting mindset paradigm..
what you wrote is relevant for real production/business usage, 
while for hobby programming having many powerful and flexible 
(even half-backed) options could be fine/fun..

And as AI is going to kill business coding in any case, D could 
leverage on being fun and pleasant to use :)

How now people are going after work to painting classes or 
playing their amateur music.. in future they could finish their 
work (validating tons of AI-generated code in boring corporate 
languages) and go to "D coding evening sessions" where they will 
manually crafting things, fixing bugs in compiler and doing 
similar things - what a joy :)