Why is D unpopular?

[Max Samukha]

On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 23:41:58 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> Wow, you're optimistic.  After having worked with "enterprise" 
> code for the last how-many decades, I would rate 99% of 
> non-trivial codebases out there somewhere between 0 to 1 on a 
> scale of 1-10.
>
> If you think dmd is bad, wait till you see the code of an 
> "enterprise" compiler for an "enterprise" language. I guarantee 
> you, you will need therapy afterwards. :-P  To this day I still 
> suffer PTSD from having once attempted to read glibc source 
> code...
>

And at the same time, it looks like the D leadership revere "the 
industry" as a source of "best industry practices" we should 
adopt.