Why D is not popular enough?

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 20:16:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> 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.

I never understood how people can get their feelings hurt when 
criticising the language they program in. Either the criticised 
point is true and one accepts it or not, in that case a factual 
refutation can be done. Feeling offended is ridiculous.

>
>> 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.

Yeah, it's also known as Stockholm Syndrome :-)