Why is D unpopular?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 23:08:54 UTC, arco wrote:
> Today one can certainly do low level system programming in D, 
> but Rust is a better systems language. One can develop 
> microservices etc. in D, and it might be pretty good for that, 
> but Go is better. D can even be used as a scripting language or 
> one to drive high level logic, but Python is better for that.

Interesting point of view because obviously it isn't the point of 
view of many in the D community. I'll spare you the details but 
it is very possible D outperform those in their specialty.

But what you said is indicative of the effectiveness of the 
stories displayed by those other langages, probably because they 
were described in terms of benefits: 
https://www.lumitos.com/en/blog/feature-advantage-benefit-the-fab-formula-for-product-descriptions-that-sell/

All 3 homepages of Rust/Go/Python start with a Benefit with few 
mentions of Features. It is a conscious marketing effort with 
relatively standard marketing thinking.