Why D is not popular enough?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 13:10:01 UTC, Emre Temelkuran wrote:
> It's easy to understand conservative programmers, you can even 
> use C++ for web programming but it's waste of time and it won't 
> give you the performance of Dropoid toolkit for Java. Also it's 
> reliability is depends on your skills. Everyone leaving lower 
> level languages other than the internet of things and game 
> development industry. I noticed that, there was no significant 
> progress on software industry for tens of years until higher 
> level languages came out.

Do you know vibe.d? http://vibed.org/