Why D is not popular enough?

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 18:54:08 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
>
> I just saw that on stats, Apple Swift 3 is fastest growing 
> language ever and if you check what's behind, it's D.

Swift is the outlier here in the language landscape.

- pushed and marketed by Apple as an important lockin into their 
ecosystem  (why invest so much effort else?)
- replaces Objective-C which is not the most pleasant or sensical 
language
- explicitely targets newcomers to programming, in XCode a new 
Swift program is a "Playground"
- consultants don't want to be left behind and now sell Swift to 
clients

Swift could succeed whatever it does.