Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/13/2022 3:49 PM, forkit wrote:
> on 11. ImportC will actually dissuade people from moving away from C.
> 
> on 13. This too will dissuade people from moving away from C.

People almost *never* translate functioning programs from one language to 
another. After all, people still use COBOL.


> In essence, you're forever locking C into D. C++ made this mistake too.

The existence of ImportC is a dev environment thing. It doesn't change the 
specification of D at all.