Why is D unpopular?

[forkit]

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 23:45:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

That may be so. I don't disagree.

However, when people say they developed my program in D, nobody 
really knows what they mean. You'll have to go look at all the 
source code to see what it really is.