Why D is not popular enough?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 19 August 2016 at 15:01:58 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Fri, 19 Aug 2016 13:36:05 +0000
> schrieb Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Friday, 19 August 2016 at 08:31:39 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
>> > If we hypothetically switched to a ubyte+ubyte=ubyte 
>> > semantic, then code like this breaks silently:
>> 
>> However, if it took the entire statement into account, it 
>> could handle that... by my rule, it would see there's a float 
>> in there and thus automatically cast a and b to float before 
>> doing anything.
>
> Float math is slow compared to integer math and precision loss
> occurs when this rule is also applied to (u)int and (u)long
> with only the deprecated (as per amd64 spec) real type being
> large enough for 64-bit integers.

Try multiplications and divisions.