D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

[Maxim Fomin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 09:20:36 UTC, Bienlein wrote:
> "You are making a cool project and we'd like to contribute to 
> it, but we don't know and neither feel like studying this silly 
> D".
>
> This is indeed a problem for many newly created languages. 
> Scala has somewhat managed to create its own eco system with 
> Akka, Spark, Spray in a specialized area like concurrent 
> programming and big data. Also because Scala has found some 
> liking in academical circles (e.g. Spark, Scala STM). I don't 
> know how things will look like for Kotlin. Maybe there will be 
> a niche for Android development. For Groovy there is basically 
> only Grails as a killer application.

Giving how D is similar to C/C++ I am surprised that 
non-familiriarity with D is a big problem.