Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 11/2/2021 11:48 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Then on the PC and Mac it quickly got the love from Apple (replacing Object 
> Pascal with C++), IBM, Microsoft, Borland, Watcom,  SGI, Sun, HP, among others, 
> and naturally Digital Mars/Symantec as well.

Um, Zortech C++ was the first native C++ compiler on DOS in 1987. (The existing 
ones were all cfront based, and were terribly slow.) ZTC++ produced the first 
boom in use of C++, accounting for perhaps 90% of C++ use.

This popularity lead to Borland dumping their own OOP C and going with C++, 
which then led to Microsoft getting on the bandwagon.

This popularity then fed back into the Unix systems.

No, you won't find this account in the D&E of C++ histories, but it's what 
actually happened.