Why is D unpopular?

[monkyyy]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 23:10:19 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> What C++ does right is that they complete the features they 
> spec out. At the end if the day, that is more important than 
> absorbing cute/clever proposals.

if cuteness and cleverness isn't required I'm sure you could 
always use c++ templates.

I think the rest of the world can look at the syntax and think 
the spec community is just wrong.