Why D is not a popular language?

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 13:21:34 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 16:47:51 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
>> Moving from https://forum.dlang.org/group/learn to 
>> stackoverflow (SO) would probably give D some more visibility.
>> Just for the sake of code blocks and syntax highlighting, the 
>> move to stackoverflow would be a win.
>
> Good idea, it would also be better for people googling dlang 
> questions because they can quickly see the best answers that 
> have been voted up. The question would often also be clearer 
> and with a better title due to editing, so more likely to be 
> picked up by Google.
>
> (Often I've searched the forum and failed to find the post I 
> remember seeing despite using clear search terms).

StackOverflow is ill-suited to serve as a community forum. But 
there's no need to "move". People already ask D questions there. 
IMO, they'd be much better off asking them here.