Why is D unpopular?

[Dave P.]

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

Personally, I think most of the explanations people give miss the 
mark. I think D’s issue are mostly engineering. I personally 
would like to use D, but I keep running into bugs with the 
compiler. The latest one I’ve hit is this 
[one](https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22427). 
Occasionally I give D a good try and really like the language 
itself, but then run into weird errors like that one. It makes it 
hard to adopt and recommend.