Why is D unpopular, redux.

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 20:27:47 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> There is also research about language adoption, and quoting 
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2509136.2509515
>
>>  Second, intrinsic features have only secondary importance in 
>> adoption. **Open source libraries, existing code, and 
>> experience strongly influence developers when selecting a 
>> language for a project. Language features such as performance, 
>> reliability, and simple semantics do not.** Third, developers 
>> will steadily learn and forget languages. The overall number 
>> of languages developers are familiar with is independent of 
>> age. Finally, when considering intrinsic aspects of languages, 
>> developers prioritize expressivity over correctness.

These conclusions seems correct to me.