Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/30/2022 12:05 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 19:10:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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?
> They didn't, they got inspired by those that preceded D, you just want to 
> believe D was the cause.

The timing suggests strongly otherwise.

C++'s discovery that templates could be used for CTFE suggests otherwise, too. 
All those articles about it never mentioned just interpreting an ordinary 
function instead.