Why D is not popular enough?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/12/16 4:59 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 20:16:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Thursday, 11 August 2016 at 15:41:42 UTC, Edward Diener wrote:
>>> the arrogance by which D was initially and repeatedly compared
>>> against C/C++ has been totally out of place since the C++ is a very
>>> good language and the effort made to denigrate it with specious and
>>> ridiculously false arguments about it vis-a-vis D as a programming
>>> language has almost irreparably hurt D as a serious programming
>>> language irrespective of its actual abilities or weaknesses. You are
>>> not going to appeal to the really intelligent programmers out there
>>> if you are not honest and rigorous in discussion of your own
>>> programming language in relation to others. All that you end up doing
>>> is to alienate anyone with real programming intelligence by the
>>> tactics that D has taken over the years with such comparisons.
>
> I never understood how people can get their feelings hurt when
> criticising the language they program in. Either the criticised point is
> true and one accepts it or not, in that case a factual refutation can be
> done. Feeling offended is ridiculous.

I recall I had a similar reaction as Edward back in the day. No hurt 
feelings or anything, but the arguments made were so specious I'd roll 
my eyes whenever I saw them in the C++ forums. -- Andrei