Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Thursday, 12 May 2022 at 17:04:27 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 04:38:21PM +0000, Adam D Ruppe via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Yeah, current D (without ImportC) + dstep (or just manual 
> translation, really) is already very nice to work with, in 
> terms of interfacing with C libraries. I've done a fair bit of 
> work using this method, interfacing with libraries like libxcb, 
> xlib, MPFR, freetype, sqlite, EGL, GLES2, etc., just to name a 
> few.
>
> What will make ImportC stand out above the current situation is 
> integrated preprocessor support, which apparently Walter 
> already submitted a PR for.  Once that's done and we can import 
> C headers without creating a separate input file (either a .di 
> or .d with dstep or manual preprocessing), *then* ImportC would 
> have better value than what we currently have.
>
>
> T

Preprocessor support takes more than just preprocessing the C 
source.

You need to be able to use the macros or it's useless. That's the 
main thing dstep is able to do.