Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022 at 20:21:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/17/2022 9:54 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Not really, as the numbers show
>> 
>> https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/03/jrebel-report-2022/
>
> It doesn't mention Kotlin.
>

It surely does, read the graphic with attention, 8%.

And yes it is more used than Scala and Groovy, which score even 
lower, also with great Java interoperability as well.


>
>> What was crucial for Kotlin's adoption was Google's decision 
>> to push Kotlin ("my way or the highway") for anything new on 
>> Android frameworks, while stagnating Java support on purpose.
>
> I'm sure that helped. But I've seen it mentioned many times 
> that Kotlin being able to access all the old Java code was 
> crucial.

Reality in the JVM ecosystem proves otherwise, also this only 
applies up to Java 7 constructs, Kotlin hardly gets any of the 
newer goodies up to Java 18.

Additionally it now tries to have a foot in native, JavaScript 
and Android, which compromises its design in regards to host 
platforms.