Why is D unpopular?

Thu Apr 28 13:50:19 UTC 2022

On Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 12:33:48 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
> Regrettably this community doesn't see much value in syntax 
> sugar, and are fine with more bulky library solutions instead.

It is possible to have syntactical sugar for library solutions if 
you have clearly defined protocols. Like D and C++ do with 
for-loops over containers.

It is in many ways the best approach, but the question is how to 
define the right protocol mechanism.