Why D is not popular enough?

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/08/16 12:38, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> From the best of my knowledge you cannot do these things in in C++:
>
> https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Precomputed-tables-at-compile-time-through-CTFE

I maintain an open source program called fakeroot-ng. It is written in 
C++. Just today, while doing some cleanups, I ran across this point when 
trying to convert a table to const.

So, yes, having a CTFE to compute the table would have been great, and 
had fakeroot-ng been written in D, I would have. Then again, the 
ultimate cost of not doing this is so low, that I didn't really feel 
cheated out of it.

That table was not expensive to compute, and its constantness wasn't 
crucial enough even for me to put a wrapper pointer and only access it 
through it. Had that not been the case, and had that table been more 
expensive to computer, I'd probably compute at compile time with an 
external tool.

The point is that while I missed have D's CTFE to compute that table, I 
didn't miss it much, and I don't miss D features often. Sadly, I cannot 
say the same thing about the things in C++ I miss when I write D. They 
are both everyday and, to me, without reasonable substitutes.

Shachar