Why is D unpopular?

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On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 06:40:30 UTC, Tejas wrote:
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> Isn't the advice to use `enforce` for handling/verifying input 
> in release builds and `assert` for development builds though?
> Yeah, it's violating DRY if a particular check needs to be done 
> in both development and release, but then one can skip the 
> `assert` and just do `enforce`, no?

argh!

I often forget that D removes assert in release mode :-(

If only we had Rust style asserts.

And by that, I specifically mean:

"Assertions are always checked in both debug and release builds, 
and cannot be disabled. See debug_assert! for assertions that are 
not enabled in release builds by default."

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.assert.html