Why D is not popular enough?

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/08/16 22:07, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/12/2016 7:41 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> 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.
>
> What I do (and is done in building DMD) is write a program (optabgen.c)
> to generate the tables and write a C++ source file, then compile the
> generated file into DMD.

Yes, I'm sorry. I meant to say "build time" instead of "compile time". 
That is precisely what I meant.

Shachar