I needs a "Django", "Rails", "ASP .NET" type of project that is out of the box ready. Go has net/http out of the box. I think if D had either a batteries included (Vibe.d is nice, but you have to handle some things still) web framework, it might convince some folk to use it more.

Go spread the way it did because it was dead simple to make websites and services, the syntax is insanely simple, but the language allows you to scale without going through a ton of hoops. Look at how much of our IT infrastructure is powered by Go now.

D has a lot of potential, but someone has to sit down and build frameworks and tooling for D.

I think if D had officially supported libraries by core maintainers that take full advantage of the best of D it might be a different landscape.

Another area where D could shine is GUIs. Everything is electron these days, it feels like nobody builds usable GUI stacks. If D had an official solution to this, and it worked nicely and gave you enough power to customize your UI, we might see a shift there too. I welcome a Electron free future.

Look at the Zed editor (ignore the AI buzz) and how insanely fast it is. Its coded in Rust, and uses WGPU iirc to just render everything kind of like a video game, but it runs insanely fast. It is my new favorite text editor.

Sadly despite my deep love of D, Go is where I'm leaning more towards, due to industry pull there.

> Another area where D could shine is GUIs

I've often thought that, to the extent that I spent a while looking for some active projects I could contribute to, and came up blank. if I do have some new gui based program of my own I want to write I will at least consider d for it, though ocaml is another great language in the same space and I already have some experience with ocaml/gtk. my hope was that d would have more mature gui toolkit bindings and more of a community of people writing apps, which would have been some incentive to switch over from ocaml, I was disappointed to find that wasn't the case.