Why is D unpopular?

[harakim]

On Wednesday, 10 November 2021 at 00:49:43 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
> wrote:
>> ...trying to understand why it's unpopular.
>> ...But I'd like to know you all opinions.
>
> Does not being popular, mean it's unpopular??
>
> That's a philosophical question I suppose.
>
> ..in any case...
>
> Is this comment (below) a 'possible' contributing factor?
>
> "Regrets? I should have made it open source from the beginning! 
> Stupid me." - Walter Bright
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27102584

And to my point and Kapps (?) point, this quote:
"But dlang has a long problem of change constantly without 
backward compatibility and a lot of projects just die because of 
it, for example the mentioned 
https://github.com/facebookarchive/warp :"