Why is D unpopular?

[rikki cattermole]

On 18/05/2022 12:41 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> 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.

Could have been yes. I wouldn't suggest that we do it now though.