Why D is not popular enough?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 08/30/2016 03:56 AM, 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:
>>> Take a look on this discussion thread and you know WHY D IS NOT SO
>>> POPULAR.
>>>
>>> The community discusses technical details and compares D to C++, but
>>> there is no clear mission statement, there is no vision statement...
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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++.

I think we'd do good to avoid explicit comparison with specific 
languages, within reason. Focusing on what makes D unique and 
interesting across _all_ languages on the landscape is a much more 
fertile approach.


Andrei