Why is D unpopular?

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 06:57:52 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 06:18:08 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>> That's the point. It reduces build complexity in a disruptive 
>> way.
>
> My point is that CTFE actually increases the complexity and 
> moves it somewhere else in a somewhat obscure way. It's one of 
> the zillions of extra features that make the language spec 
> bloated and difficult to learn.

It's exactly the contrary of this.

Doing thing at compile time with templates implies something new 
and difficult to learn (see C++). Doing things at compile time 
with CTFE don't add anything new to learn, you write code as 
always.