Why is D unpopular?

[forkit]

On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 09:47:22 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 09:37:24 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

the problem with forks, is finding competent compiler 
developers.. and there ain't that many of them.

then you need a competent team to mangage the fork...and there 
ain't too many of them either...

it forkin aint' easy...to fork.

btw. the premise of the question posed ( a long...long..long time 
ago..)
.. is flawed and kinda meaningless.

the question should have been => 'Why is D not widely used'.