Why is D unpopular?

[Tejas]

On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 06:51:46 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:

>
> One of the old C projects is the Linux kernel. I know that some 
> people are working on making it possible to develop some parts 
> of the Linux kernel using Rust language. Would ImportC make it 
> possible to use D for developing some parts of the Linux kernel 
> and how is it different from what Rust people are doing?


Rust isn't being used to develop any part of the Linux kernel 
itself, AFAIK. It's approved for driver development, not any part 
of the kernel proper(although device drivers are, like, 90+% of 
the code in the Linux project so...).