Why D is not popular enough?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 16:09:58 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 15:31:35 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
>> [...]
>
>
> Dear Emre,
>
> we have had such threads in the past and experience shows that 
> there will be a huge non-productive debate about it. I think 
> all the people here agree that "D deserves a bigger community", 
> but everyone has a different view on how to achieve that.
>
> My personal opinion is that we all can do a tiny contribution 
> to make D more popular.
> For example you should start actively promoting D at your 
> university, workplace and among friends and maybe you can even 
> start a local Meetup or developer group.
> Of course, the online pedant is actively complaining on a 
> discussion, site, ... if D is not listed or mentioned in a bad 
> light.

If D deserves criticism, don't complain (it's not a religion). 
But if the comparisons are unfair and / or half-truths are 
spread, then yes, one should complain and set the record straight.

Apart from that, I agree with you. Just use it and, if possible, 
improve it. The more the merrier :)

> If you have more time, doing great projects or libraries in D 
> will help it's adaption too ;-)
>
> In any case I highly encourage you to have a look at Walter and 
> Andrei's Action List and contribute to it. You know, writing a 
> unittest for a non-covered line in Phobos takes around the time 
> to post here, but it's a helpful contribution!
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Wish_list
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2016H2_(Draft)
>
> What I was trying to say, we shouldn't waste time arguing about 
> whether D is awesome, but make it even more awesome ;-)