What makes a language popular - and how to manufacture D popularity

[Sergey]

On Saturday, 28 May 2022 at 10:19:44 UTC, zjh wrote:
> On Saturday, 28 May 2022 at 09:35:10 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>
> In fact, most `'d'` programmers are willing to `contribute`. 
> Otherwise, they will not discuss `'d' issues` and `participate 
> in` 'dip' discussions.
> They just don't know where to get the `task`.

It looks like it is not really the case..
For example, one of the most successful (at least based on stars 
of GitHub) project could not find a maintainer more than 2 years..

https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/issues/1700

And it is highly tied on:
* Linux
* GNOME VTE
* GTK3

And now on the one of the most popular issue page someone 
suggested just move to Rust competitor, which supports a billion 
features (like GPU rendering) and runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 
10 and FreeBSD…

Some users already left Tilix because of lack of maintaining..
Now “let’s write in Rust” solution promoted on D solution’s page…
Nobody care