Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/6/2022 10:30 AM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_05_02.html


You wrote about new D bug-detecting features not finding bugs in existing code.

This is completely unsurprising. For example, I ran one of those new C++ bug 
finding scanners over DMD (back when it was still in C++). How many bugs did it 
find? Zero.

The thing is, the DMD source code was very well tested. The routine coding bugs 
that caused problems were already fixed.

The bug finding features are for *new* code, so you can find the bugs at compile 
time when it is much more efficient to fix them.