D easily overlooked?

[Bienlein via Digitalmars-d]

> 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.

Well, on the Tiobe index D is currently on place 23 way ahead of 
Lua, Scala, Rust, Kotlin, Groovy. So there is obviously 
asomething wrong with the Tiobe index here as all those other 
languagse are quite a bit in use. Hope this compensates a bit for 
your pain ;-).

> 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...

D is the most feature rich language I know of. Maybe only Scala 
comes close, but Scala can be at times an unreadable mess as the 
designers of the language valued mixing functional and OO higher 
than readability. D, on the contrary, has a very clean design 
througout.

But you are right. D is missing some unique selling point like 
ease of concurrency using Communicating Sequential Processes in 
Go or memory safety in Rust without a GC. This is because D does 
not have a business model, but seems to be seen as a playground 
for building the greatest language ever. I fear this will not 
change. Topics of people arguing that D needs a business case pop 
up regularly here and are every time mostly or also completely 
ignored. It does not look like this will change, because the main 
drivers of the language never drop a comment in those discussions.