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

[Dibyendu Majumdar]

On Monday, 15 April 2019 at 10:43:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/15/2019 3:09 AM, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
>> Ultimately it boils down to what you need to do to make a 
>> living. If you had tons of spare money you can probably afford 
>> to work on something you like or think is good; but if you 
>> need to earn then you have to go where the demand is.
> Laeeth Isharc just posted another list of job openings for D 
> programmers at his company:
>
> https://digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Has_D_failed_unpopular_opinion_but_I_think_yes_325826.html#N325995

Sure but consider this:

Firstly a handful of jobs posted by one company isn't going to 
sway developers.

Secondly it takes time and effort to master a language such as D. 
Unless someone is hiring C/C++/Java/C# programmers and is willing 
to let them learn D on the job, how are you going to sway 
programmers to invest the time in D when they could be improving 
their skills in other languages that have much more demand?