Why is D unpopular?

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 16:14:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 15:42:17 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 14:02:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>> Grøstad wrote:
>>> I doubt I would have looked at D if the connection to C++ 
>>> wasn't used as a "marketing trajectory".
>>
>> In contrast, I knew about D for many years before even looking 
>> at it, because I didn't want a better C++. I wanted something 
>> that wasn't C++. Go and Rust clearly separated themselves from 
>> C++, so I used them both before trying D. The only reason I 
>> even downloaded DMD was because Go and Rust had a certain kind 
>> of suckiness to them that I kept searching.
>
> Yeah, I get the suckiness thing, but when did you start to use 
> D? I think D presented itself differently up to about 2014?

Pretty sure it was 2013, in the aftermath of DConf. Back then D 
was all about "C++ done right".