Why is D unpopular?

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 18:57:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 18:08:53 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
>> wrote:
>>> It got [asked on 
>>> reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/q74bzr/why_is_d_unpopular/) sub but for those that aren't active too, I'd like you opinions. Please don't get me wrong, I also love D, I've used it everywhere I can and I'd say it's my favourite language (yes I have one...) but I'm as as the reddit's OP, trying to understand why it's unpopular. Rust and Go seeming to be getting more and more users. 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
>>
>> Have asked this question for a long time now. Still don't know 
>> why.
>
> Easy, during the last 10 years, Java, C# and C++ added the 
> features that D had as edge over them.

I suspect an even bigger factor is the proliferation of good 
languages in the last 20 years. Someone wanting to have fun 
programming can use Clojure, Scala, F#, OCaml, Julia, Kotlin, and 
others. Someone wanting to replace C for things that need to be 
much faster than a scripting language have Rust, Go, Nim, and 
others. The fact that some of those languages are good for 
compiling to Javascript is yet another reason to not use D.