D easily overlooked?

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 15:13:23 UTC, Andrew Chapman wrote:
>
> I agree with the others that having no major company behind 
> DLang is not helping from a money/resource/exposure point of 
> view.  That said, there must be things we can do as a community 
> to help improve the situation.
>
> I can imagine for example that the community could focus on 
> particular sectors where D excels, and [...]

The primary issue isn't what *can* be done, but what *is going* 
to be done:
People (including me) can be (reasonably) expected to spend their 
free time on things that interest them; those don't usually 
intersect with things that would make D more popular - not to 
mention that D has still too many internal rough edges for me to 
think making D significantly more popular at this point in time 
is going to help us in the long run. I personally much prefer a 
slow, steady growth until the internals (@nogc, shared, etc.) 
have been sorted out.