On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 16:22:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
FWIW, Python hit pretty big success with a different approach:
Appeal to people's innate desire for instant gratification.
Perl and Python gained traction because they replaced multiple
other scripting tools by a single one. What is D replacing?
Adoption of Python2 has taken a long time, it is _very_ stable,
cross platform and has 60000 libraries... Python3, C11 and Perl6
might end up never being widely adopted, and instead be
superseded by a completely different language.
(You can compare Python2/C99 with D1 and Python3/C11 with D2.)
