Why is D unpopular?

[Paul Backus]

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 08:56:57 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 03:03:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> This has been extensively and exhaustively debated several 
>> times in this n.g. I don't really want to re-litigate it.
>
> Can you provide links? I'm interested in the topic and if there 
> are points brought up I have not considered, I don't want 
> people having to re-explain them to me.

The best explanation of this that I've found is actually from an 
article about error handling in a research language called 
Midori. The following link goes directly to the relevant section:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/02/07/the-error-model/#bugs-arent-recoverable-errors

If you want to read previous discussion about this from the D 
community, including several posts from Walter where he explains 
his position in his own words, there is a very long thread from 
2014 here:

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/m07gf1$18jl$1@digitalmars.com