[bachmeier]

> D's niche

That represents a misunderstanding of D. Unlike Go and Rust, which were built for one specific use case (Go for the work done at Google, and Rust for writing a browser), D is an all-around good general purpose programming language. If it did have a niche, it would be as a C replacement, and it is the best available tool for that.

Your comment also implies that D is not used. Download statistics, forum activity, and the existence of users suggests otherwise.

[steveklabnik]

Rust was built to be good for browsers, but also as a general purpose language. We’ve made decisions in the past to not include things the Servo folks wanted, for example.