> Yet I know of at least one company putting their eggs in the D basket (Weka). Symmetry Investments pay for at least 2 varying-hours staff for the D Language

> Yet I know of at least one company putting their eggs in the D basket (Weka). Symmetry Investments pay for at least 2 varying-hours staff for the D Language Foundation - including me. This is a recent development. They are seemingly constantly hiring, too. D is basically designed not to be risky. The whole language is a big collection of simple compromises for the most part, i.e. if you want to write correct code the obvious thing to do is encourage testing and contracts, surprise surprise D has first class unit tests and Ada style function contracts.