Why is D unpopular?

[Antonio]

On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 06:14:43 UTC, bauss wrote:

> I use it mainly for web development, web services and just 
> integrations with external systems.


- What libraries do you use? (I'm curious).

I will begin soon a new "small" internal web project and team is 
"pushing" me to abandon node/typescript in favor of Rust.  I will 
give D a new opportunity (http REST + basic ORM/Mapper over 
Postgress + RabbitMQ + Rest services integration).

I actually use D for scripting tasks and team doesn't understand 
why I'm not using python... "D code syntax is expressive, quickly 
compiled and statically typed. It has well OS integration, formal 
verification with pre/post conditions and easy unittests... " vs 
"python is used everywhere by everybody and you have a lot of 
libraries for everything, including OpenCV in the last version... 
just use it".

Now, I face to "If you really want a statically typed language 
flexible enough, use Rust like everybody does... if Linux can 
introduce Rust as a secondary language, we can too.  There is a 
great community support with up to date well maintained and 
stable libraries for everything".

2 years ago I decided not to use Rust (nor D either) as main 
language (Rust expressiveness is a joke compared with D... but D 
stability on my ubuntu running hunt or vibe.d was a complete 
disaster).

Sorry for the sobs :-p... just wanted to understand how other 
people can deal with such obvious arguments in favor of other 
alternatives ("Mainly: everybody does... your needs will be 
easily covered, and so on...")

Antonio