Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/20/2022 9:14 PM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 02:55:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/20/2022 12:01 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>>> You skipped my comment about default unstable sort in Phobos, but such 
>>> decision also erodes safety to some extent.
>>
>> The language and Phobos are two different things.
> 
> I disagree. The language can't become popular without a good standard library 
> that is bundled with it out of the box. Phobos is very much relevant to the 
> topic of this thread and hand waving "oh, but the core language is okay" doesn't 
> help.

The language is where the guarantees come from, not the library.