Article calls D "irrelevant"

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On Wednesday, 25 February 2026 at 02:27:35 UTC, Meta wrote:
> https://www.makeuseof.com/why-is-c-programming-language-called-c-what-happened-to-d/
>
> "But, despite its achievement, D faced a classic problem. By 
> the time D arrived, the world had already moved on. Enterprise 
> companies were using Java and C#, and the world was still 
> firmly locked into C and C++. A few years later, a language 
> called Rust appeared which focused heavily on memory safety 
> (the same principle as D), and it managed to capture the 
> attention of the tech world in a way that D never quite managed 
> — and effectively made D irrelevant.
>
> Today, D exists as a highly respected niche language. It's 
> actually used by companies like Netflix and eBay for specific 
> high-performance tasks. It's a great language, but it never 
> became a king."

All those who keep arguing about D being "dead" because industry 
does not use it are missing the point.

I am glad that no industry is controlling D. I am glad that it is 
maintained by benevolents who love the language for what it is, 
not because it's their "job" (hopefully).

I am glad that D still exists today.

Languages come and go, but community is what matters. D is 
organic. It's not boosted by a marketing scheme or an army of VCs 
or corporates from Big Tech, and I hope it'll stay like that for 
the decades to come.

In the age of LLMs, coding in any language is trivial, but 
building genuine communities is beyond their reach. And when 
communities form around organic discourse rather than 
manufactured hype, they endure.