Why is D unpopular

[Tejas]

On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 06:09:34 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 June 2022 at 23:09:22 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Swift has definitly a bright future no matter what, because it 
> has one of the most powerful companies that asserts that is the 
> only way to play on their turf going forward, besides 
> Objective-C and C++.
>
> Unfortunely the time for such kind of big industry players to 
> pick D has moved on, they are now busy with Go, Rust, or adding 
> to Java, .NET and C++ the missing pieces that made D a better 
> option, while having a much bigger ecosystem in tooling and 
> libraries.

Isn't stuff like `Dart` also feasible on Apple though, due to its 
amazing portability (ie, `Flutter`)?

Doubt non Apple people will pick up Swift, but it'll definitely 
work the other way round