You know, the google thing. Personally I'm a bit excited for a compiled python-like C language. It's going to take for fucking ever for it to become useful, though, especially with google's slow and steady attitude. I could see it catching on though kind of like python did.
I can't think of any standard software written in D, let alone much of it.
I hate this argument. There's plenty of good languages out there, and people don't use them because they're not used much/not popular in the industry? Why do you care, just learn the language and find out for yourself if it fits your needs. This is a general argument, and doesn't apply to D. It's even worse that people just pick languages mostly just because of how good their marketing is.