Why is D unpopular?

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On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 07:32:09 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> That is my experience as I lived through it during 1980's 
> Portuguese view of the computing world.
>
> For example, I never saw Zortech being sold in any computer 
> shop, while Watcom, Borland and Microsoft compilers were 
> available all over the country. Symantec ones later became 
> available in the mid-90's.

That is also my experience. Microsoft, Borland and Watcom were 
big but I never heard of Zortech. Later on in the 90s I did see 
the Digital Mars C++ compiler.