Why D is not popular enough?

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 August 2016 at 09:03:50 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta 
wrote:
>
> At this point I'd like to know which non-tumoral language we 
> should all be using...
>
> (I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I'm truly interested 
> in knowing what's his ideal language).

D++, haha, just kidding.

If you think about it, things started to go wrong for D once 
Andrei joined the project.  He used his influence to introduce 
features that made D a lot more complex to the point where it is 
now sinking under its own weight.  For several years the largest 
source of bugs in D was the interaction of all these new 
features, and probably still is.  And people rightfully continue 
to perceive D's design and implementation as unsound, buggy and 
unstable.  Still to this day, Phobos is unable to compete with 
C++ STL, not even close, while with each new C++ the gap 
continues to grow.  D would have been in much better position had 
it tried to be "a better C" instead of trying to be a "better 
C++".  Just the idea of a "better C++" is so retarded, it's like 
trying to have a "better cancer".  And it should have tried to 
please the C and *nix crowd instead of the C++ crowd.  The C++ 
community is pretty much full of overpaid bozos whose idea of a 
better anything is the one with a big price tag and backed by 
multi-million dollar ad campaign from a fascist mega-corporation.