Why D is not popular enough?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 15:43:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> All kidding aside, shared is pretty broken currently. If you 
> want to know how it was *supposed* to work, you can read TDPL, 
> though I'm not sure that's still valid.

Ah, was it Andrei, who tried to sell the idea that shared is a 
silver bullet for concurrency problems? That can explain why we 
have two different views on shared. Looks like a repetition of 
the story with autodecoding (with similar rationale).