Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/2/2022 2:57 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
> There is nothing big about CTFE. )

It completely transformed how D code is written.

Check out this, for example:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/backend/oper.d#L388

DMD used to do this initialization as a separate program, which did what the 
lambda did here, and wrote out a file which was then compiled in as part of DMD. 
The Digital Mars C++ did the same thing for its tables.