Why D is not a popular language?

[Andre Pany]

On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 18:25:35 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 11:00:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 16:26:43 From a technical point 
>> of view, D is in a very good shape and even more fantastic 
>> additions are on the horizon for 2021:
>>
>> - named arguments
>> - string interpolation
>> - floating point to string conversion implemented in DRuntime
>> - huge list of more features and fixes
>>
>> At this point of of time the community has the task to 
>> increase the popularity of D. Other languages have companies 
>> behind to spend money on advertising the language. For D, this 
>> advertisements needs to be done by the community.
>> We need more technical evangelists in the community.
>
> +1
>
> How do you think that can happen? (Assuming the DLF isn't 
> involved)
>
> How do we grow and aggregate content on D?
>
>>
>> This will increase the D community and therefore more 
>> developers will join which e.g. develops the better QT6 
>> integration or any other missing part.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Andre

Some ideas:

- (if you work for a software company) try to establish D.
- if the company you work for already is using D, you could make 
this public (in alignment with the public relations department of 
your company).
- create blogs/tutorials and post them on hn and r/programming. 
There is far too less D content on this channels. If you have 
done something, post it and speak about it.
- try to speak about D as much as possible, everywhere

Kind regards
Andre