[giancarlostoro]

I often wonder if it were released today as "new" if it would of gained plenty of more hype. One thing I think that Go has that D is lacking is the standard library. With Go you can write a web server, a mail server, and plenty of things right away out of the box. Where in D and other lovely languages you either need to get a package manager, or make your own. Outside of this small detail I think D is amazing at what it's done, and I hope to work on more projects in D in the future. I only wish schools used D in more classes. I guess the last thing it's lacking is a serious IDE. I've seen and tried a couple, but at the end of the day I end up using a text editor with a hoard of plugins.

[epoch1970]

C++ and D aren't the kind of languages that get hype because they're the kind of languages that see serious use right away. If you're deep in the trenches writing C++ and/or D code, you don't have the time or the need to generate hype. You're getting actual work done. Things are different for languages like Ruby or Go. These were used more as flights of fancy for certain people, many of whom were not getting real work done. So they had time to write lengthy blog articles, make YouTube videos, host conferences, and write really weird and absurd tutorials. These are the kinds of things that generate hype. Hype is a product of everything but code; actual code is the anti-hype.

[jeremiep]

There's the dub package manager for D. http://code.dlang.org/

I don't think I'd want web and mail servers straight into the standard library out of the box. Those are way too specific. For example, there's already vibe.d for web servers and its doing an excellent job. They even have compile-time HTML templates!

As for IDEs, on Windows I've recently used VisualD and it did a good job. It's not yet as complete as the C# integration of Visual Studio (especially when taking ReSharper into account), but it definitely feels like an IDE. It already has improved hugely over when I last used it last year.