Why D is not popular enough?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 10:50:17 UTC, John Burrton wrote:

>
> This is why the example on the front page put me off for a long 
> time :-
>
>     stdin
>         .byLineCopy
>         .array
>         .sort!((a, b) => a > b) // descending order
>         .each!writeln;
>
> It makes the language look like some weird high level 
> functional language where you don't ask how it works and you 
> shouldn't care how it maps to the machine instructions and 
> memory.
>

I bet you if you had a C-style example on the front page, people 
would complain that it's old fashioned and not really different 
from C, and they'd ask "Why can't I do things like 
`stdin.byLineCopy.array.sort!((a, b) => ...` in D?".