Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/29/2022 11:26 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Decades before D was even an idea.
> 
> Again, SIGPLAN.

So why did other native languages suddenly start doing it after D did to the 
point of it being something a language can't skip anymore?