Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 22:35:00 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 15:08:13 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> ...
>> ....
>> The biggest impact IMHO is that the threshold for *trying out* 
>> C-libraries is lowered. If you have to create your own binding 
>> your are essentially "locked in" due to the effort you spent 
>> just to get started.
>>
>> The larger the C-library is and the more frequently it is 
>> updated, the more impactful this feature might be.
>
> You just summarised my argument for why ImportC == 'here be 
> dragons' ;-)
>
> D's focus should be 10 years ahead, not 30 years behind.
>
> Just imagine Rust/Go implementing a C compiler inside their own 
> compiler They'd be laughing stock (not because it's wrong or 
> silly, but because they took the initiative to step further 
> awat from C, not further towards it).

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen

It's not built in to the compiler but it's officially supported 
by the Rust foundation.