Why is D unpopular?

[Jack]

On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 13:23:30 UTC, max haughton wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 12:05:40 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 10:11:12 UTC, forkit wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Actually, there are quite lot of people who have enough 
>> compiler knowledge from their CS degree to do something 
>> significant, so that skill isn't as rare are one might think. 
>> Compiler design is a course that many take. But the current 
>> codebase isn't really attractive for that group. Maybe SDC is 
>> a better horse to bet on, but I don't know much about the 
>> status or internals of SDC to make a judgement.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> That is a concern. Getting a loose group of people to focus on 
>> one shared long term vision doesn't happen by chance.
>
> Amaury and I are trying to bring SDC back into the folds. Feel 
> free to contribute.

what is SDC? is that "Stupid D compiler"