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Are you implying that D is slow at compiling regular code but fast at compiling itself, because of some cleverness?

Is that actually true?

Lol, the person you're replying to never said, nor implied that.

I'm not trying to knock you, but your comment reminds me of the type of exchanges where one person says says "men do a lot of work", and the other person replies "are you saying women are lazy?"

> one-off tricks like compiling itself in 5 seconds.

I took that as saying D could compile itself in 5 seconds too. I was impressed. Bubble bursted.

I'm pretty sure that was a knock at go

I'm not saying that at all. But looking at a feature matrix or hearing from a fan what the great parts of a language are isn't enough to convince me to adopt it.

If it's been around for 2 decades and hardly has any adoption by large companies[0] I personally am not willing to learn it (unless that changes).

I'm not necessarily using adoption as a proxy for quality either. If there isn't any meaningful adoption it's not like I can join a company to write it or have an easy time convincing my manager to try it. It could be the greatest language on earth but if I can't write it then it doesn't matter.

[0]: https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

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