Why is D unpopular?

[Jack]

On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 14:56:37 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 07:56:15 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> I think his point was that D seems to favor library-only 
>> solutions in a lot of cases and then the syntactic sugar is 
>> never added properly.
>>
>> No matter how good your library solutions are then you can 
>> never implement async/await in a clear fashion without the 
>> compiler emitting you a state machine for it.
>
> The dirty secret here is that the code quality of the DMD 
> fronted has deteriorated to the point where it is basically 
> impossible to do a correct, complete implementation of any 
> non-trivial language feature. So we can either have a library 
> solution that works, but has ugly syntax; or we can have a 
> language solution that has nice syntax, but doesn't work.

wow