D easily overlooked?

[Mark via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 July 2017 at 08:57:17 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
> https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/
>
> A recent article where github programming languages popularity 
> and migration got analysed was very interesting but it showed 
> one noticeable thing:
>
> A total lack of D even mentioned!!!
>
> When looking at other language ranking sites, D always scores 
> better then Rust. Yet, Rust gets included in the ranking but D 
> is ... nowhere to be seen. It gets even a bit annoying when its 
> always Rust, Rust, Rust ... that keeps popping up. Seen it more 
> and more how Rust is simply trampling over any D messaging.
>
> D... It really has no very unique feature that makes it 
> noticeable.
>
> * No Galactic overlord ( C#, Go, ... )
> * no GC language that people can push until people there ears 
> bleed ( Rust)
> * no really unique features that people care about to set it 
> aside from C/C++, ...
> * It has the kitchen and sink but nobody talk about the kitchen 
> and sink.
>
> I know people will jump onboard and start yelling how D has 
> very unique features but from the "outside world" its always 
> the same response. While more people are downloading D and 
> trying it out, i barely see any independent D language blogs.
>
> Not to be a downer but D really in my eyes is missing that 
> "unique" feature that people care about, that allows people to 
> blog about the language...

Well, at one point Andrei said that what is missing to make D's 
growth explosive is a strong corporate sponser [1]. This seemed 
sensible to me at the time and still seems sensible today. But I 
don't know what (if anything) can be done to increase the 
corporate community's interest in D.

[1] CPPcast, Oct. 27, 2015: 
http://cppcast.com/2015/10/andrei-alexandrescu/ (at 25:30)