Why is D unpopular

[Paulo Pinto]

On Monday, 13 June 2022 at 06:38:13 UTC, Tejas wrote:
> 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

Maybe, that also boils down to the same basic example anyway, one 
of biggest corporations on the world (Google), pushing a cross 
platform framework (Flutter), where only one language gets to 
play (Dart).