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

[SrMordred]

On Friday, 12 April 2019 at 08:02:30 UTC, JN wrote:
> more behind the scenes, around the same level of popularity as 
> Nim, Crystal.

Since i think this is a talk about popularity...

I feel that Nim and Crystal have WAY more adoption/popularity 
than D, but im not sure if both are backed by any great group 
(like Rust).

So I think a good point to focus this discussion is, why Nim and 
Crystal got the lead in popularity but not D?