[eitland]

> D isn't really competing with anything,

It is competing for my attention and many others I guess.

> I'd call D a dead language. Can a dead language compete with a growing one?

I'm much more inclined to spend time with D than with a number of other popular languages if I could choose.

I don't know if I'm alone in this, but for what I know kt might become really popular in the future. (Look to Erlang for an example of a language that went unnoticed for a couple of decades or so.)

FWIW Rust is on top of my list of languages I want to master if I should get time.