D seems interesting, and it shows up here and on Reddit's r/programming occasionally. But to unseat C++ or Java from their entrenched positions, it needs to be

D seems interesting, and it shows up here and on Reddit's r/programming occasionally. But to unseat C++ or Java from their entrenched positions, it needs to be more than "better" - it needs to be _way_ better. This from the D FAQ is telling: ----- Why aren't all Digital Mars programs translated to D? There is little benefit to translating a complex, debugged, working application from one language to another [...]