Why is D unpopular?

Tue May 17 12:41:02 UTC 2022

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 07:06:47 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> Iain has been doing an absolutely wonderful job essentially 
> creating an LTS frontend and we didn't bother ship a LTS 
> version of dmd.

Do you mean that the 2.076 frontend from GDC 9/10/11 can be 
essentially treated as a D language "edition 2017"? I actually 
like the idea, even though I can see a few challenges that can 
make everything a bit complicated.