Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 8 November 2021 at 22:53:09 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> That is because I literally have no idea what exactly does your 
> solution consist here! Right now, I am not convinced at all 
> regarding your solution.

Alright, but my sketch of a solution would require rethinking the 
D type system and that would have to follow a restructuring of 
compiler internals, so it would totally depend on the compiler 
authors' willingness to build a clean architecture first. Meaning 
it is something you could plan for, but not do over night.

Anyway, the solution would be to make the language more uniform 
under-the-hood. So you would not necessarily notice it much as an 
application programmer, it would mostly be visible in 
meta-programming.

So what you do is you internally in the compiler collapse struct 
and class into one concept, with the ability to constrain it. 
That way a class and a referenced structs become similar in 
meta-programming.

For an application programmer it could be more or less the same 
as now, if desired. Syntax could be expanded internally into the 
new representation.