Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/1/2022 11:04 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/1/2022 3:57 AM, Paulo Pissas wrote:
>> The reason I dropped D after over 6 years of using it exclusively, was a loss 
>> of belief in the direction, and the fact that after many years, not a lot had 
>> improved in regards to frictions for the busy programmer. It really felt like 
>> an enthusiasts' project, and not really an effort to build a widely adopted tool.
> 
> What friction was there that other languages you switched to did not have?

BTW, the entire reason for ImportC was to greatly reduce the friction of 
interfacing with C. It is not a feature of the D language itself.