Why is D unpopular?

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On Sunday, 12 June 2022 at 00:41:20 UTC, norm wrote:
>
> In a practical sense module scope encapsulation works really 
> well, I find it much better than strict class encapsulation 
> that then has to be broken anyway with friends. In fact I've 
> not encountered one bug using module scope encapsulation. None. 
> I have had many bugs in my code though using friends in C++!
>
> It is fascinating the amount of energy in D forums spent 
> talking about D's shortcomings and reminds me of the internet 
> in the late 90's early 00's where every forum chat ended in a 
> flame war.
>
> All this energy would be much better spent making software with 
> D or building up its ecosystem....but that requires work and 
> not as much fun as pointing out someone is wrong on the 
> internet. The latter requires no work at all for the same 
> physiological response in the brain as recognition by others 
> for a job well done.
>
> I guess it is the nature of the beast, D is so flexible and 
> very good at so many things that people are unwilling to accept 
> that D by design just doesn't do everything the way they want.

Nice distraction, yet again ;-)

This is not about 'strict' encapsulation.

How many times do I have to say this.. jeessssee........

I just want 'the option' to hide my invariants from other code in 
the module, and have the compiler enforce those invariants at 
compile time.

Really, it doesn't sound like such a big ask to me.

Why so many are against this, is puzzling, to say the least.