Why is D unpopular?

[harakim]

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:35:08 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
> wrote:
>> 
>> I think it's due to large ecosystem and the big corporations 
>> with deep pockets that pushes them. But I'd like to know you 
>> all opinions
>
> Yes, that's a big part of it. If you look at other languages 
> that doesn't have the corporate backing, they are about as 
> popular as D. Also, when something is developed in a proper 
> organization, it also usually means some kind of functional 
> management and a few developers that can do that full time.
>
> Python is kind of a outlier here, that has grown organically.

I was thinking about this post for a while. What about R, Perl, 
Ruby or PHP? I don't think even C++ had corporate backing out of 
the gate. Which company backed Scala? Sun?

It seems like Python is in good company and the corporate-backed 
languages are the outliers.