Why is D unpopular?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 03:43:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/11/2022 5:12 PM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
>
> C interoperability is a major barrier to using D. ImportC is 
> probably the best leverage for D among existing initiatives.

Personally I think importC will be useful, will be able to 
leverage many C libraries that are available but too long to 
port: lua, codecs, all stb_thing.h... the list is really quite 
long. Why not steal C++ and Zig biggest appeal.