Why D is not a popular language?

[evilrat]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 07:21:26 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>
> D's leadership is almost legendarily bad at communicating 
> openly and effectively with contributors
> ...

Yes, there may be serious organizational/management problems, but 
the language itself is so cool.
Being open source also means that it is possible that someone 
makes a fork with better management and vision and it might 
succeed, but on the other hand I hope this not happen any time 
soon, as D is barely living and such split might actually sink 
both projects.

Heck, even I myself was thinking about making my own 'Better D' 
transpiler with new fancy sugar such as optional semicolon, fancy 
null conditional and null coalescing operators (aka ?. and ?? in 
C#) and such.
Thanks to dmd as a library this might be even possible as a one 
man project.