Why D is not a popular language?

[aberba]

On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 11:00:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Friday, 8 January 2021 at 16:26:43 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.

+1

How do you think that can happen? (Assuming the DLF isn't 
involved)

How do we grow and aggregate content on D?

>
> 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