Why is D unpopular?

[forkit]

On Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 06:14:43 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 21:46:11 UTC, forkit wrote:
>>
>> I can certainly make the case for why you'd want to use 
>> something other than dmd for compiling your D code.
>>
>
> That's __your__ bias, but not mine.
>
> I don't need anything other than DMD for my code to work 
> perfectly fine.
>
> I don't need anything I make to be real-time fast, I can afford 
> a couple of MS delays here and there.
>
> I use it mainly for web development, web services and just 
> integrations with external systems.

No. It's not my bias.

It even states this on the download page:

https://dlang.org/download.html

No point in offering different compilers, if they all did the 
same thing ;-)