Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/28/2022 5:04 AM, bauss wrote:
> * async/await
> * Properties that actually work and also with a really good syntax IMHO 
> (getters/setters)
> * string interpolation
> * Shortened methods (and properties.) - much better than the proposed version for D
> * nullability built-in ex. object?.method(), as well null-coalescing
> * pattern matching / switch expressions
> * out parameters that can be declared directly in the method call
> * built-in tuples, as well auto-expanding them to variables etc.

It's a good list. Though I proposed a straightforward string interpolation 
method, but it received no traction.

I don't know what you're driving at about properties not working in D. I use 
them all the time.