Why is D unpopular?

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On Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 23:32:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>
> An open source community allows (should allow?) individuals to 
> spend their energy on any topic that they want. Some will work 
> on ImportC, others (which apparently includes you) will work on 
> @safe.
>
> Ali

My comments are in the context of this thread, about why D is 
unpopular.

It's not about me wanting to stop people in an open-source 
community from spending their time on whatever they want.

But I feel ImportC and @safe push D into two completely different 
directions.

So D may become 'more' popular to those wanting to import more C 
into their D.

And D may become 'less' popular because more people are importing 
C into their D.

I'm struggling to see how two different directions get us to... 
well.. anywhere.