Why is D unpopular?

[Araq]

On Sunday, 1 May 2022 at 21:00:23 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

> C++ is not in a position to fake that it cares about tooling. 
> That train has already landed... (What? :p)
>

"X is already bad so let's make it worse."

> Although tooling is a good point againts the proposal to 
> discuss, it is nothing important to make anyone to write a 
> paper to preemptively kill a proposal. After all, they could 
> write (or say) that another token might be used. How about the 
> angle brackets?
>
>   static if (condition) <
>     // ...
>   >
>
> Solved. :)

The tooling problem is not caused by the syntax but by the 
scoping rules.