Why D is not popular enough?

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 14:41:14 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> So, yes, having a CTFE to compute the table would have been 
> great, and had fakeroot-ng been written in D, I would have. 
> Then again, the ultimate cost of not doing this is so low, that 
> I didn't really feel cheated out of it.

I was just giving examples of things that aren't possible in C++, 
or are possible but less easy, require external programs, require 
incredible macros...

If it's not easy it's as if it doesn't exist.