Why is D unpopular?

[mw]

> The answer is very simple: historical baggage.

OK, that explains.


On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 23:09:57 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 22:44:25 UTC, forkit wrote:
>
> Betterc++

Yeah, that's what I mean, better than C++, that's where D get 
started.

And I guess D's module stuff coming from Java's package idea: all 
the classes/files in the same directory are supposed to be 
closely related, so the access control (private/protected) is 
relaxed. IIRC, Walter also produced a Java compiler in the early 
Java 1.0 days before he started D.


Sometimes, completely rewrite is the only way to solve the 
problem. I know one of the mega cap tech company completely 
rewrite their whole infrastructure at least 3 times. Each time 
with the lesson learned from the previous version.


But, given D’s small community size, not sure if this is feasible.

Just wondering if someone want to start from scratch writing a 
completely new D front-end.