Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 6 November 2021 at 11:09:24 UTC, Alexey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Dlang can now already easily takeover Golang programmers: 'go 
> generate', absence of generics and other language features and 
> low expressiveness of Golang, makes Dlang already better.
>
> [...]

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/43651-type-parameters.md

> This is the design for adding generic programming using type 
> parameters to the Go language. This design has been proposed 
> and accepted as a future language change. We currently expect 
> that this change will be available in the Go 1.18 release in 
> early 2022.

https://go2goplay.golang.org/

While D keeps trying to decide what market it should cater to, 
others keep closing the gap, while having better ecosystem.