Why D is not popular enough?

[John Burton via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 10:50:17 UTC, John Burton wrote:
> I'm willing to admit I might be the only one :P But I'd much 
> rather see the "better C" side as my first view of typical D 
> code than this.

And I want to be clear... None of this is a complaint. I just 
wanted to post what personally put me off looking at D again for 
a while as a data point :)