Why is D unpopular?

[forkit]

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 23:24:14 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 22:49:09 UTC, forkit wrote:
>> In essence, you're forever locking C into D. C++ made this 
>> mistake too.
>
> Yes, but that decision has been there all the time by keeping 
> weird things from C such as messy operator precedence.
>
> I am more concerned about compiler internals and refactoring.
>
> (D's biggest mistake was to not align semantics with C++ and 
> incorporate clang for C++ interop, but that is too late now.)

I think 'why is D unpopular' can be answered by D's biggest 
mistake.

Which was, to not move away from C (i.e. differentiate itself 
from C).

Instead, it tries to offer you the future, while being tied to 
the past.