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I think we are experiencing a fatigue in general when it comes to IT and technologies. Sure technology evolves but you can learn only so much at the same time.

I think we are experiencing a fatigue in general when it comes to IT and technologies. Sure technology evolves but you can learn only so much at the same time. People prioritize. If the technology is not appealing to me I won't use it but at the same time if the technology is massively used and pushed by corps and startup hype I have to at least take a look. D did not attract enough people nor it has a backing of multi billion dollar corporation.

qznc 10y ago
Reasons for D: It is a way out of the C++ tar pit, because it does C++ interop better than any other language. D needs to continue to outrun C++ evolving, though. See http://dconf.org/2016/talks/watson.html http://dconf.org/2016/talks/watson.html or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkwaV6k6BmM It has powerful meta-programming. It is effectively the opposite of Go, which does not even have generics. This certainly provides foot shooting as well, so other languages (e.g. Rust) are more conservative with that. D examples: https://qznc.github.io/d-tut/meta.html https://qznc.github.io/d-tut/meta.html Those are the two reasons, which D has ahead of all other languages (ok, not Lisp wrt meta-programming). If you compare it to another specific language, there are more things to talk about.