D is on his way to Top 20 in Tiobe

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 December 2015 at 14:32:38 UTC, JohnCK wrote:
> You know what: for a language that is about 14 years old I was 
> expecting more by now.

D programmers are too busy being exceedingly productive to brag 
about how great their language is on reddit every other day :)

But the age thing is kinda misleading because D has gone through 
several major iterations and hasn't had a concerted marketing 
effort. My amazing novel is like 16 years old now... but nobody 
has read it because it isn't actually published yet! It is still 
just going through the process in my brain and amongst a circle 
of select friends.

I said on IRC recently that D has genius programmers in it, but 
mediocre managers and marketers. I think that has always been 
true... genius programmers write genius programs, but it is 
management and marketing that makes something explode in 
mainstream popularity, just like the greatest novel ever written 
will never be on the NYT best sellers list until some publisher 
arranges to sell it to book stores (well, with very rare 
exceptions). It isn't about features anymore at this point.