Why D is not popular enough?

[rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 20/08/2016 6:08 PM, Bill Hicks wrote:
> On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 15:31:35 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
>> For years, i was travelling along Golang, Rust, Perl, Ruby, Python,
>> PHP, JScript, JVM Languages.
>> Lastly Crystal Lang and Nimrod, Julia, Haskell, Swift and many more
>> that i can't remember.
>>
>> I'm 24 years old, my first lang was PHP and VBasic then C,C++ and i
>> first heard about D after 2005 when i was 14-15 years old.
>>
>> I always ignored D, i prejudiced that D failed, because nobody were
>> talking about it. I decided to check it yesterday, it has excellent
>> documentation, i almost covered all aspects. I think D is much better
>> than the most of the other popular langs. It's clear as JScript,
>> Swift, Julia and PHP, also it's capable enough as C,C++. I think D
>> deserves a bigger community.
>>
>> Why people need NodeJS, Typescript etc, when there is already better
>> looking lang?
>> Everyone talking about how ugly is Golang. So why people are going on
>> it? Performance concerns? Why languages that are not backed up by huge
>> companies are looking like they failed?
>
> F*CK, here we go again.
>
> D is not popular because it is a failed language (i.e, failed design,
> implementation, and everything else).  How many times do we need to
> repeat that before people get it?  Move on, get over it, and be happy.
> There are far better programming languages out there for any problem
> domain.

And yet it is steadily growing.