Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 18:20:55 UTC, kot wrote:
> years ago i suggested D should be distributed with an embeded C 
> compiler. since it was already required to be binary compatible 
> with C, this was the obvious next step which would also solve 
> most tooling issues out of the box. from license issues to 
> practicality there were many voices against it, some said it 
> was a dumb.

Hah, I have suggested this too!! About seven (??) years ago. Did 
you use a different nickname back then? (Walter didn't like it, 
but he changed his mind now?)

> is the most important. they save you from one hell, only to 
> welcome you with another, yet they give you the tools 
> (half-assed tools, tools nonetheless) to get something done.

Well, yes, although it shows that C/C++ was not designed with 
tooling in mind. But looking back those language has improved a 
lot. When I started with C, the Ansi-standard was so new that 
most codebases I retrieved by FTP didn't support it. So they were 
littered with #ifdefs and macros to support all the C-dialects 
(and Unices…). So there has been a steady stream of improvement, 
although C itself looks arcane now.