Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/5/2022 11:57 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> 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.

Actually, it doesn't add any new syntax. And it removes that peculiar limitation 
that functions cannot be used to determine enum values. It's more the removal of 
a compiler limitation than adding a feature.

CTFE in C++ was a new feature, as it (pointlessly) added new syntax with new rules.