Why is D unpopular?

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On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 09:37:24 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
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> D has many libraries that end up not being maintained, so the 
> most important thing is to retain users, and then one needs to 
> understand why they leave. One key issue that has been 
> mentioned in this thread is that people leave because of 
> inconsistencies in the language.

Yes, what we need is to start D3 where the language can evolve 
and people can tinker around more. D2 isn't going anywhere now 
and the maintainers believe that it is "perfect".

Alternatively that D is forked.