"Two years later however, D was still stuck in 2007. This was in part due to the infighting between the standard library camps who had failed to learn from the

"Two years later however, D was still stuck in 2007. This was in part due to the infighting between the standard library camps who had failed to learn from the mistakes of the Java class library and were busily adding bloat and verbosity to Phobos and Mango." This was never a case for Phobos. D still lacks a lot, but Phobos is a pretty lean library. It's built around the concepts that were introduced by Alexander Stepanov and STL and refined them to the great extent. Go on contrary has no support for generic programming, therefore I can only imagine how full of ad-hoc algorithms the typical Go code is. So yes, for me it's definitely not the NBL but just a niche language. D still has a lot of issues, but as a language it's better than Go.