Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 17:14:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/30/2022 1:02 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> As if all those people doing CS research in programming 
>> languages needed D's existence to notice what is know in 
>> academia for decades.
>
> Bjarne Stroustrup has a PhD in CS. Why didn't C++ have it? Why 
> does every iteration of C++ make CTFE work more like D's?
>
> Why didn't any of the other mainstream native compiled 
> languages have it? Fortran? Ada? Pascal? Modula 2? (The latter 
> two by CS academic researcher Niklaus Wirth.)
>
> CTFE is a *huge* win. Why was this well-known thing languishing 
> in complete obscurity?

C++ doesn't pretend to have invented features that have preceded 
it by decades, other than what they might have taken away from D.

Other programming languages had other design goals, which is not 
the same as clamming to have invented something.