Why D is not popular enough?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 15:41:42 UTC, Edward Diener wrote:
> the arrogance by which D was initially and repeatedly compared 
> against C/C++ has been totally out of place since the C++ is a 
> very good language and the effort made to denigrate it with 
> specious and ridiculously false arguments about it vis-a-vis D 
> as a programming language has almost irreparably hurt D as a 
> serious programming language irrespective of its actual 
> abilities or weaknesses. You are not going to appeal to the 
> really intelligent programmers out there if you are not honest 
> and rigorous in discussion of your own programming language in 
> relation to others. All that you end up doing is to alienate 
> anyone with real programming intelligence by the tactics that D 
> has taken over the years with such comparisons.

> 4) As a C++ programmer largely interested in C++ template 
> programming, C++ concepts etc., and potential 
> compile-time/run-time introspection, I have never found a 
> compelling reason to use D rather than C++.

This is a good example of why C++ programmers will never move to 
D. They are quite happy with the language. They want a better 
C++, and that's C++14, C++17, etc., not D.