Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/29/2022 10:00 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 15:28:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/27/2022 8:59 AM, Satoshi wrote:
>>> Also I don't know why they didn't take the inspiration from other modern 
>>> languages.
>>
>> Other languages have taken inspiration from D, such as ranges and compile time 
>> expression evaluation.
>>
>> ....
> 
> Sorry, Lisp, ML, CLU and Smalltalk did it first, D was surely not the first in 
> this regard.
> 
> Plenty of SIGPLAN papers on the subject.

Those were interpreters first and added native code generation later. D did is 
the other way around, and the native code generating compilers started doing it 
soon afterwards.