Why D is not popular enough?

[yuioyyoi via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 16:16:03 UTC, eugene wrote:
> On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 15:31:35 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
> i suppose it was simply because D v.1 failed and then authors 
> created a new version of D (v.2) which is current, but the name 
> "D" stayed the same, so, people remember some drawbacks of D 
> v.1 and think that D v.2 has the same drawbacks, maybe without 
> even trying D v.2

Also before it was closed source and the whole infrastructure 
(repository, testing , bug report) was shitty. Bright admited 
himself that going to GH and using bugzilla was salvatory. So 
even if it existed before, you can consider early 2010's as a 
second birth. (there's a non technical conference posted earlyer 
this year where he talked about this).