The future of D

In the years I have been involved with the D community, I have watched it grow from a handful of programmers posting on an obscure newsgroup to a large, vibrant community of users, contributors, and an annual conference. The language has changed and improved dramatically over that same period. As someone who enjoys using the language and who keeps abreast of D-related news and discussions in several different online communities, I'm quite optimistic about D's staying power.

On August 24, 2015, Andrei Alexandrescu announced in the D forums that he was resigning from his position as a researcher at Facebook to work full time on "pushing D forward." On October 16, 2015, he announced the incorporation of a D Foundation to promote and develop the D programming language. One of D's greatest strengths is that anyone in the community can contribute toward its development, but that has also been one of its greatest weaknesses; contributors tend to focus on the aspects of the language...