Why is D unpopular?

[Dukc]

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
wrote:
> It got [asked on 
> reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/q74bzr/why_is_d_unpopular/) sub but for those that aren't active too, I'd like you opinions. Please don't get me wrong, I also love D, I've used it everywhere I can and I'd say it's my favourite language (yes I have one...) but I'm as as the reddit's OP, trying to understand why it's unpopular. Rust and Go seeming to be getting more and more users. I think it's due to large ecosystem and the big corporations with deep pockets that pushes them. But I'd like to know you all opinions

This is the sort of thing what many of us love to tell they 
"know", but we're really only guessing based on past personal 
experience and gut feeling - very shaky. Perhaps someone really 
has more insight than the rest but we can hardly tell who.

We need some real research on human behaviour to base our 
opinions on, otherwise we're never going to know the real reasons 
with any meaningful confidence.