On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 16:16:33 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > D is a general-purpose language, so when people call it "niche" I > suspect they're simply referring to D's user base currently being much > smaller than C/C++/Java/Python/etc. The "niche" of D users.
Exactly. Regardless of how good D is, its user base is still relatively small - especially in industry. I'd fully expect that anyone specifically looking for a job programming in D would have a very hard time of it. They exist, but they're not common. But the user base is growing, so D may yet become a mainstream programming language like we'd like it to. Plenty of other programming languages have taken a while to really catch on (e.g. Python). - Jonathan M Davis
