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

[slimper]

On Wednesday, 28 January 2026 at 07:16:57 UTC, Serg Gini wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 January 2026 at 06:17:01 UTC, slimper wrote:
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>
> 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 :)

I remember back in 2006, waiting for the language and standard 
library to finally stabilize so I could use D in production... 
It's now 2026, and I'm still waiting :)

And what's more, the immaturity and the attempt to clumsily play 
every instrument at once is still somehow seen as a feature