Obnoxious postings from Google Groups

[Roy Smith]

In article <50932111$0$29967$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
 
> Huh. If you're messing about with ancient[1] languages like Java, C# and 
> especially C, you're not a real programmer. Real programmers use modern, 
> advanced languages like D, Erlang, Go or Haskell.

Does anybody actually use D for anything?

I looked at the language a while ago.  There seemed to be a lot in it 
that made sense.  Does it get any real use, or is it just an interesting 
research project?