Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 18:26:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 18:05:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Decades before D was even an idea.
>
> Again, SIGPLAN.

Which papers?