Why is D unpopular?

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 13:04:24 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
> One thing I've not understood is why Walter decided not to 
> integrate warp ... I don't remember a clear motivation of this 
> choice

Using system headers means compatibility with the system 
preprocessor, which might have strange proprietary quirks.

I don't know how much of a problem that is in practice (the 
current importC guidelines are to just #define away half the 
header), but that is the reasoning behind it.

But you can still use the system preprocessor. There's an open PR 
to just shell out to it. Just this still leaves it less capable 
than dstep already is due to no work with the defined constants.

This is why I wrote this mixin c proposal in last October. Max 
has started experimenting with it, so there's hope. (And it is 
just a proposal I wrote up in the middle of a call, it might be 
horribly useless too, but nobody has actually made an argument 
yet. Seems the only way to get D leadership attention is to troll 
comments on Hacker News.)