Why D is not popular enough?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/13/2016 2:57 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I'm also tempted to argue that making shared virtually unusable without
> casting it away would be a good idea - particularly when you consider that
> most code that uses shared is going to need to cast it away to do anything
> with it (even if we had synchronized classes, that would still be the case -
> it would just be that under some circumstances, the compiler would do it for
> you).

I suspect that's what the end result will be with shared. Anything else just 
seems like an illusion of correctness.


> However, it sounds like Walter wants to postpone discussing this seriously
> until after scope is sorted out.

Yes.


> way too many folks just slap __gshared on stuff if they want
> it to be shared (which is almost always the wrong thing to do).

That's why it's not allowed in @safe code.