[gomoboo]

Where do you get the notion that D's leadership no longer see it as a systems language? Some of D's proposed features have been blocked to protect its use as a systems language e.g. @safe by default.

Also are NativeAOT and GraalVM replacements for a language like D when they limit access to their respective languages' library ecosystems?

I think comparison to Python is a plus. Python is loved because of its flexibility and ease of use. One of D's strengths is the degree of flexibility and ease of use it maintains while offering much greater performance than Python.

I do agree that language improvements can be slow but I don't believe it is because maintainers are afraid. I believe it is because of the degree to which D involves its wider community in improvements.

Edited for grammar.

[WhereIsTheTruth]

By using the language, when you step away from phobos/gc/eh to embrace esoteric targets (wasm), you start to notice how the language is just not made for that kind of things, wherewas the highlevel stuff are nailed

Or rather, it doesn't provide enough to justify the downsides