Has D failed? ( unpopular opinion but I think yes )

[Tofu Kaitlyn]

Sorry for that title, but this is something I have been thinking 
about for a while...

I honestly feel like D is a failure. I kinda just wanted to vent 
about it and see what other people think.

I have been using D since around 2012 or 2013, instantly fell in 
love, use to post on the forms a lot under the name Tofu Ninja. I 
was convinced D was the future but since then I have become 
disheartened. The biggest thing that makes me feel like this is 
that in the 7 years I have been using D I literally have never 
met another programmer IRL who has even heard of it. I put on my 
resume that I like D and every interview I get asked about it, 
having to explain what D even is because they have never heard of 
it. I have never seen a job posting listing D. Never see any 
projects pop up on /r/programming using D. It feels like to the 
rest of the programming universe, D doesn't even exist. Sometimes 
I see threads on reddit like "what's your favorite programming 
language" and I always look for D but never find it.

And honestly I don't think that is going to change. I feel like D 
has failed.

I duno... what do yall think? Is D going to somehow explode in 
popularity in 5-10 years? Am I missing some part of the picture? 
Or am I right and if so what can be done about it?