Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:50:04 UTC, Tejas wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:35:08 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think it's due to large ecosystem and the big corporations 
>>> with deep pockets that pushes them. But I'd like to know you 
>>> all opinions
>>
>> Yes, that's a big part of it. If you look at other languages 
>> that doesn't have the corporate backing, they are about as 
>> popular as D. Also, when something is developed in a proper 
>> organization, it also usually means some kind of functional 
>> management and a few developers that can do that full time.
>>
>> Python is kind of a outlier here, that has grown organically.
>
> Also C++, maybe? It's not like AT&T straight up commissioned 
> Dr. Bjarne to write C with classes; atleast the first few years 
> of cfront were very rough, keeping it relevant only because it 
> had 100% C compatibility.

Alone that fact made almost every C compiler vendor embrace C++, 
as C++ was born on the same place as UNIX and C.

Then on the PC and Mac it quickly got the love from Apple 
(replacing Object Pascal with C++), IBM, Microsoft, Borland, 
Watcom,  SGI, Sun, HP, among others, and naturally Digital 
Mars/Symantec as well.

During the 1990's, C++ was everywhere for desktop GUI frameworks 
from all OS vendors, and even TUI (like Turbo Vision).

Also Bjarne likes to tell that C++ only became an ISO because 
representatives of companies like IBM, and others of similar 
size, made it a requirement for adoption after a visit at AT&T.