Why is D unpopular?

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On Friday, 5 November 2021 at 13:42:44 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 5 November 2021 at 13:10:58 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
> wrote:
[...]
> Of course, there is no reason for D to go after microservices, 
> scripting or WASM either!! If D had an application framework, 
> then it would be better than Go/Rust/Python for writing desktop 
> apps, for instance.

What kind of application framework? something like .NET?