Why D isn't the next "big thing" already

[LaTeigne via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 01:32:50 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 15:11:00 UTC, llaine wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm using D since a few month now and I was wondering why 
>> people don't jump onto it that much and why it isn't the "big 
>> thing" already.
>>
>> Everybody is into javascript nowadays, but IMO even for doing 
>> web I found Vibe.d more interesting and efficient than node.js 
>> for example.
>>
>> I agree that you have to be pragmatic and choose the right 
>> tools for the right jobs but I would be interested to have 
>> other opinion on thoses questions.
>
> I think we need more frameworks like vibe.d to build things 
> with them. Currently there is not much so only a class of 
> programmers will find the language useful.
>
> Another thing is that the language is not marketed well enough. 
> Someone need to handle marketing of the language, like real 
> marketing. Most people are still unaware of D.

The best marketing possible is pre-marketing in universities. For 
example in the 2000's Delphi was incredibly popular in Russia 
because the holder at this time (so Borland unless it was already 
Code Gear) sold literally **hundreds** of licenses to the russian 
education department. This is how it became so popular in Eastern 
Europe, despite of not being free.

The day D will be used to teach student programmation it could 
get popular. Unfortunately since the students that form the main 
frame of workers have short formation (typically 2 years) they 
are taught what's really used in the industry so Java, C++ + web 
languages, so that they're ready to program the same shit during 
10 years, until they leave and reconvert.