What is holding back the D language from wider success?

[andrewstuart]

The D language http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ is exciting. It's a bit like C++ but better, incorporating many of the best ideas of other programming languages and resolving many of the historical problems and issues in C++, and its fast, compiling to native code.

There seem so many advantages to D over other programming languages.

So what's holding it back from wider success? Why have so few people heard of D?

[Uhhrrr]

D seems interesting, and it shows up here and on Reddit's r/programming occasionally. But to unseat C++ or Java from their entrenched positions, it needs to be more than "better" - it needs to be _way_ better. This from the D FAQ is telling:

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Why aren't all Digital Mars programs translated to D?

There is little benefit to translating a complex, debugged, working application from one language to another [...]