I very much enjoy using D and want it to succeed but this statement along with finding "everyday uses" for things (e.g. using zeromq) are huge drawbacks to buying into it. I'll still advocate but it's not easy sometimes
I think three things attribute to a programming languages success or failure: tooling, documentation and standard library. Look at Go, great out of the box library, same with Python, but the tooling for Go isn't the greatest (debugger? a real IDE? etc) then you look at C#: tooling (Visual Studio, VS Code, debugger), documentation, and even out of the box the .NET Framework is a decent "standard library" with plenty included. If only D had at the very least a well dedicated IDE. I hope more people notice D so that the community around it builds solutions, it has a lot of great potential yet to be tapped, and plenty of groundwork has already been done with D.
