Why D is not popular enough?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 19 August 2016 at 00:50, John Smith via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Well there are some things I feel could be improved, a lot of the things are
> really just minor but what is a deal breaker for me mostly is the compilers.
> The GCC and Clang implementations are really far behind in terms of the
> version, so they are missing a lot of features. A lot of the features that
> I'd want to use D for.

This is a constant vicious cycle.  Sometimes I wonder of how better it
would be for all if D was instead defined by a spec, not an
implementation that adds small feature changes in an ad hoc manner as
it sees fit.