Why is D unpopular?

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 13:34:35 UTC, Alexandru Ermicioi 
wrote:
> We should not have release switch as it is now due to those 
> security holes mentioned.

That's merely the Adam's claim. He is trying to very aggressively 
"save" me from some non-existing problems without realizing that 
I'm just not using D language in the same way as he does. He is 
too busy being engaged in some sort of shadowboxing against 
himself and is not paying attention to my explanations.

To sum it up. The '-release' switch doesn't disable bounds 
checking in @safe parts of the code. So we are fine as long as 
the majority of code in a project is marked as @safe. Rather than 
removing or changing the '-release' switch, I think that a much 
better idea is to migrate more code and libraries to @safe and my 
understanding is that D language is moving in that direction. 
Maybe Walter can confirm or deny this?

Regarding the name of this topic. If the '-release' switch 
removal idea gains traction, it will be a strong reason for me to 
quit. Performance parity with C++ without unreasonable extra 
efforts is very high on my priority list. If extra efforts are 
unavoidable and D loses its rapid development appeal, then 
there's always Rust as a more mainstream alternative.