Why is D unpopular?

[Dukc]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 20:05:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/30/2022 10:43 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/30/2022 2:30 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> D hasn't invented anything newer here, and regardless of the 
>>> wishfull thinking that it did, you won't find any references 
>>> to D as inspiration to those features in modern languages 
>>> papers like HOPL, rather to those that have preceeded it.
>> 
>> You won't find any references to D as inspiration for static 
>> if in C++, either, despite the fact that Andrei, Herb, and I 
>> submitted a formal proposal for it for C++.
>
> As to why there aren't references to D as inspiration, and no 
> references to Zortech C++'s seminal role in the early days of 
> C++, consider this:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3613.pdf

I can't fathom what they were thinking when they wrote that 
paper. The reasoning in it is so bad that it's an outright 
disgrace to the C++ committee. Not saying they should have 
accepted the proposal, there were some good arguments, but as a 
whole it's ignorant to the point of appearing downright hostile. 
You really deserved much better than that.