Why D is not popular enough?

[John Burton via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 11:17:33 UTC, Chris wrote:
> 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?".

Yeah I know...
As I said not really a complaint ... But it d make me think d was 
too high level a language with too much 'magic' . Other people 
will have different opinions