Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 at 23:08:18 UTC, Joshua wrote:
> amazing_. AFAIK, nothing remotely similar existed for compiled 
> languages more than 10 or 15 years ago. I'm just not a fan of 
> the trade-off: it's like, _"Everything you can see in this vast 
> ecosystem is free to reuse, all you have to do is use this here 
> build system which supports the only programming language 
> you'll ever need. Isn't that great? Now go forth and make a 
> name for yourself by rewriting useful libraries from other 
> ~~other~~ inferior languages into our new paradise!"_ It's 
> exciting and fun and so much work and at the end you get... a 
> silo. Not so with D (or at least not as far as I know yet! ☺)

Hm, I get a feeling you speak more of packages than builds? I 
assume any build system that generates makefiles can be extended 
to work well with Go and Rust?

It is easier to create C wrappers in D than Go, for modern C++ 
not so much, as modern C++ is heavy on header files.