Why D is not a popular language?

[Andre Pany]

On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 16:26:43 UTC, Marcone wrote:
> I've been a programmer for 15 years. I program in several 
> programming languages, only for Windows desktop with graphical 
> interface. I have been programming in D for only 1 year and for 
> me D is the best programming language. Why not invest more in 
> Dlang? Better integration of D with Qt5 and Qt6 and the web 
> would make Dlang rise in popularity.

 From a technical point of view, D is in a very good shape and 
even more fantastic additions are on the horizon for 2021:

- named arguments
- string interpolation
- floating point to string conversion implemented in DRuntime
- huge list of more features and fixes

At this point of of time the community has the task to increase 
the popularity of D. Other languages have companies behind to 
spend money on advertising the language. For D, this 
advertisements needs to be done by the community.
We need more technical evangelists in the community.

This will increase the D community and therefore more developers 
will join which e.g. develops the better QT6 integration or any 
other missing part.

Kind regards
Andre