Why D is not popular enough?

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 12:51:16 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta 
wrote:
>
> Your offensive tone, your attitude to pointing at a single 
> person as the source of the problems,
>

My friend (or foe), please don't get it twisted.  If D had been a 
huge success, it's Andrei and Walter who were going to take and 
receive all the credit.  As it is, they are known as the creators 
of the D programming language, and they practically have the 
final say in its design and implementation.  So, I say, if a 
single person is going to be pointed at as the source of success, 
then, on the flip side, when a project fails, that person 
deserves to be pointed at as the source of the problems.  That's 
how it works in the real world.

Today those who have spent time and energy learning D and using 
it in their projects are the real losers in this.  They can't get 
a job as D programmers, because nobody is hiring D programmers, 
and there are far better languages out there that they could've 
spent their time learning.  And as far as their projects, if it's 
anything serious, they'll probably have to rewrite it in another 
programing language.  At least Andrei got a book deal out of it, 
and improved his resume.  Isn't Walter touring the world as D 
consultant?  Imagine that, the D's documentation is so good that 
the few companies using it need the creator himself to consult 
them out of the mess they're in.  And IIRC, a few people here 
sucked up to Andrei and managed to get a job at Facebook, and 
they then disappeared.  What are you getting out of D?

Moral of the story, never trust a capitalist to do good for 
humanity, regardless of their cuteness.  They either f*ck it up, 
or line their pockets.

> your improper use of low-level stereotypes and non-technical 
> pointless argumentation are definitely out of place.
>

Based on what OP was asking, I don't think this thread was meant 
to be very technical.

>
> I think some kind of moderation should be applied to this 
> forum, so that people like you either shut up or start exposing 
> their ideas in a civilized way.
>

Baby, trust me, text is very civilized, and every flavor of it.  
If you can't handle a block of text from the comfort of your 
computer screen, then you're not going to make it in life.  I'm 
an Amerikan, and I have fully absorbed the culture and its 
collective philosophy.  Text is as civilized as it gets.  A line 
above it is going to involve illegal wars based on lies on a 
defenseless nation with the objective of raping and killing 
millions of innocent civilians while stealing their land and 
precious resources.  We've been doing it for centuries, and we 
are pretty good at it.  Now you wouldn't want that, would you?

> By the way, you are not answering what I asked you in my 
> previous post. But if you can't do it in a grown-up fashion, 
> don't bother doing it, please.

I don't feel the need to promote my ideal language, and I rarely 
do.  At this point I'm not quiet sure what the ideal systems 
programming language is or ought to be, but it's definitely not D.