Paradox about D's popularity.

[Don]

On 21.09.2011 21:23, Gor F. Gyolchanyan wrote:
> As much as I'd like D to develop sweet language features like named function
> parameters, directing effort to increase compatibility of D with other languages
> (most notably, C++) would be a better idea, because if D gets cheaper and cheaper
> to use with existing code base, more and more people will start caring about D and
> the aforementioned sweet language features will get implemented more rapidly.
>
> If Walter, Andrei and others agree with my proposal, i suggest to postpone all
> enhancement requests for D, except compatibility-related ones and direct all our
> attention to it.

 > As well as direct more attention towards fixing DMD bugs, rather
> then developing phobos libraries, because as much as developing phobos is
> important, having a stable compiler is much more important.

Most of the attention is already going to DMD.
On git, to date:
DMD pull requests:     401
Phobos pull requests:  272
Druntime pull requests: 74

I find this quite surprising. DMD benefited enormously in moving from 
svn to git. Phobos development seems to have scarcely changed.