Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 09:27:54 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> If C# would be too ugly and inefficient, few would use it. 
> Visual Basic also supports .Net to some extent but is rarely 
> used compared to C# so language do matter.

Right, but C# started out as a Java clone (basically) and I 
wonder if some of the language features they added over time are 
"significant" for why people rate C# favourably. I see more 
people complaining about Java than C# in online discussions. Why 
is that?


> etc. This means that C# will be the default language for many 
> systems in the future and will eat up C++ market share 
> significantly.

Maybe. But, both Google and Microsoft tried to distance 
themselves from C++ for a while, yet they are fully backing it 
now.

You also have things like Intel ISPC that tries to make parallell 
programming easy,  and I think that one is sending signals of 
where performance programming is heading.

The future of "low level programming" is difficult to predict, 
but maybe the nature of "low level programming" is changing? I.e. 
less about pointers and instructions and more about utilizing the 
hardware?