Why D is not popular enough?

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On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 13:34:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 11:29:45 UTC, John Burton wrote:
>> As I said not really a complaint ... But it d make me think d 
>> was too high level a language with too much 'magic' . Other 
>> people will have different opinions
>
> Indeed, I'm not a fan of that example either...
>
> but we could turn this weakness into a strength: have two 
> side-by-side implementations and emphasize that the same 
> language handles both styles.

i think it will lead to something like: "Why do they have 
different examples for the same thing?" or "Why there are only 
few different examples to do the same thing? I thought D could 
give me more abilities" and so on)))