Why is D unpopular?

[Alexey]

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
wrote:
> Go seeming to be

Dlang can now already easily takeover Golang programmers: 'go 
generate', absence of generics and other language features and 
low expressiveness of Golang, makes Dlang already better.

As for Rust: I don't think Dlang should compete with it directly, 
thou Dlang can obtain optionally Rust's 'strong' features and by 
this make self more attractive to those who choose Rust.

But in general, there are too few projects, which can display 
Dlang's awesomeness, while for Golang it's Docker and Kubernetes 
and for Rust it is Mozilla programs.

IMHO, If Dlang would have something like Web-engine written on 
it.. or may be if Dlang had own Linux-kernel replacement, or 
maybe some DBMS (for instance RethinkDB fork or Cassandra fork), 
or OpenShift substitution - this would be huge!