Why D is not popular enough?

[Markus via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 07:56:06 UTC, Markus wrote:
> On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 14:31:50 UTC, eugene wrote:
>> On Monday, 29 August 2016 at 12:11:34 UTC, Markus wrote:
>>>[...]
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> the url https://dlang.org/overview.html states that "It's a 
>> practical language for practical programmers", i think this is 
>> the vision statement)))
>
> Take a look on https://dlang.org/ : "D is a systems programming 
> language with C-like syntax..."
>
> The overview-page http://dlang.org/overview.html has two main 
> sections which compares D with C++.
>
> The tour https://tour.dlang.org/ is nearly empty, but on the 
> first page it states that D is an "evolution of C++ (without 
> the mistakes)" (the real content is hidden in the 
> menu-sections).
>
> Most of the (very good) articles in 
> https://dlang.org/articles.html compare D-features with C++. If 
> I want to learn how D templates work, I do not need to know 
> what is bad in C++-Templates.
>
> From my point of view this misleading for people comming to D 
> first time. D is a mature full featured language by its own. D 
> has its roots in C++ (and C) but is full fledged now and should 
> represent its features and strength with continuously 
> referencing C++ and without this repetitive "without mistakes".
>
> Many young people are looking for alternatives to the boring 
> Java Ecosystem. If you position D in the, from there 
> perspective, grandparents-language C++ edge, you will miss them.
>
> Regards
>
> Markus

Sorry, two typos, should be read as:
...
D has its roots in C++ (and C) but is full fledged now and should
represent its features and strength WITHOUT continuously
referencing C++ and without this repetitive "without mistakes".
...
 From my point of view this is misleading for people coming to D
first time.