Why D is not popular enough?

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 August 2016 at 08:57:48 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 August 2016 at 06:11:54 UTC, rikki cattermole 
> wrote:
>> 
>> And yet it is steadily growing.
>>
>
> A brain tumor grows too, until it kills.  We might have lost 
> the battles with programming languages such as JavaScript, C++, 
> etc, but we still have a fighting chance against D, and we must 
> do everything we can before it's too late.

At this point I'd like to know which non-tumoral language we 
should all be using...

(I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I'm truly interested in 
knowing what's his ideal language).