Why is D unpopular?

[Araq]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 21:59:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 4/30/22 13:14, Dukc wrote:
> > On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 20:05:14 UTC, Walter Bright
> wrote:
>
> >> As to why there aren't references to D as inspiration,
>
> Bjarne Stroustrup mentions non-C++ programming languages only 
> when he sees failures as in "Java tried." I will never hear him 
> mention D.
>
> >> 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.
>

Huh? The paper is quite good IMHO. The tooling problems that 
result from `static if` are real.