Why D is not a popular language?

[Max Haughton]

On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 22:23:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 20:33:45 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 20:13:46 UTC, John wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> This is not true, if you keep an eye on the druntime/dmd PR, 
>> you will see that a lot of them are about refactorings and 
>> code clean up.
>
> Uhm, you just listed features D don't need: string 
> interpolation, named arguments and string conversion in a 
> runtime (stupid idea).
>  The runtime should be slimmed down to a bare minimum. The type 
> system should be fixed. Memory management and shared should be 
> finalized. If that requires refactorning, great. Aaron 
> certainly has a point.

string interpolation and named arguments are pretty useful, not 
familiar with the final one.