Why is D unpopular?

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at 21:41:50 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at 21:02:32 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 November 2021 at 17:27:25 UTC, Dr Machine Code 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>> The reason d in unpopular is because the forums are not active 
>> enough, has there even been a thread with 1k comments?
>
> If i had not raised, and continually pursued this idea, it 
> would have never got to 1k ;-)
>
> D is too complex and has to many unfinished ideas in it, to 
> accept any new ideas, it seems. How sad.
>
> Core are too stuck in there ways, and seemed focused on 
> programming in the small.
>
> D also suffers (and will continually suffer) from bringing too 
> much of C along with it. It'll constrain it.. forever.
>
> Because of all this (and more), other languages have already 
> bypassed D, any many will continue to do so.
>
> I personally, cannot make the case for using D any longer.

D having allot of c is part of why its usable, like its probably 
the single most important feature of c++ and its the consistent 
target to have c comparability