Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 8 November 2021 at 16:29:28 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> I'd be willing to be money that no program has ever been 
> written that uses all of the language features.

I think that is the wrong line of argument. The core language 
ought to be minimal, yet complete. So, for a system level 
programmer having some language features being GC dependent is 
seen as a red flag.

For that to be reasonable you would need different profiles and a 
more layered approach. So you have a core language (no GC) and 
then on top of that a more high level language (possibly GC).