Why is D unpopular?

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On Sunday, 14 November 2021 at 21:58:21 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> The ACID test of language complexity is to look at typical code 
> bases and ask yourself if it would be a good idea to tell 
> newbies to learn the language from studying those.
>

I'd argue, that the ACID test of language complexity is the 
extent to which you can make sense of the code you're looking at, 
without any prior exposure to the language that it is written in.