Why is D unpopular?

[Tejas]

On Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 05:04:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 00:24:49 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> Well, do we know why Calypso's development stopped?
>>
>> Maybe it had nothing to do with the merit of the idea but 
>> simply the circumstances of the developers? Many open source 
>> projects stall because the devs simply don't have time to 
>> maintain it anymore, perhaps the same happened here?
>
> Bolting on clang is the wrong approach, one has to integrate 
> with it to get the full featureset.

What do you mean? We should try to get D _inside_ Clang? Emit C++ 
instead of machine code, and feed _that_ to Clang?