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

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 28 January 2026 at 08:43:00 UTC, Kapendev wrote:


> Anyway, I hate the popularity meme. It's a good one to see the 
> opinions of some people here, but overall this conversation is 
> a waste of time. No action and all talk.

This is fine advice at the micro level. If you want to improve a 
third-party library to meet your needs and share your work with 
the community, go ahead. The higher the level, the more important 
it is to have less action and more talk.

- Do community members understand where the language is going?
- Do you have community members that buy in to what the project 
is trying to achieve?
- Does an outsider see a vision that makes them want to join and 
contribute?
- Can a company considering adoption understand where things are, 
where things are going, and trust that there will be an active 
community going forward?

Randomly doing things because they're cool and interesting is 
fun, and perfectly fine for one's own purposes. Indeed, that's 
how things got to where they are today, with lots of half-done 
and poorly documented dub packages and limited tooling. If that's 
all that's happening, the language doesn't have much to offer, 
unfortunately. Rust didn't take off because a bunch of people 
decided all it took was action without a plan.