Why is D unpopular

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at 06:46:45 UTC, bauss wrote:
> I completely agree with this. It bothers me A LOT that it's the 
> view of most people around here.
>
> Why stop there? Why not remove any constraints in the language? 
> After all you can just stop making mistakes. "Just don't do it."
>
> Why do we need @safe, dip1000 etc.? Just verify the memory 
> yourself, if you accidentally screw up then that's your fault, 
> surely it isn't the language's fault.
>
> @nogc? Nah we don't need that, just don't allocate using the GC.

When you end up adding more and more stuff to a language it is 
considered better to go back to the drawing board and start over.

Otherwise you’ll end up with a mess...