Why D is not popular enough?

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 12:27:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>
> 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

I already roll my eyes at these threads and I've only been using 
D for like a year or two. I'm amazed you still have eyes at this 
point.