Why is D unpopular?

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On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 10:47:13 UTC, bauss wrote:
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> That's just ignorance at play.
>

Well you're sure being picky in what you respond to.

But on *my* computer, I have only one compiler for C#. That's not 
ignorance, that's fact!

Of course, I (still) program against .NET Framework, not .NET 
Core.

I use VS if I need a gui in my app, but for console programs, I 
program in my own IDE which i developed myself (in C#!).

But even if I programmed against .NET Core, instead of .NET 
Framework, I'd still only have one C# compiler on my computer 
(regardless of the platform i'm using).

I'm not even aware of another compiler available to me, or why 
I'd even consider it.

Now if I install .NET Core on my computer, then sure, I'd have 2 
compilers for C# - but each targeting their own framework.

But in my world, as it is, there is only one C# compiler I ever 
use.

On the otherhand, even on the same platform (whether it's Windows 
or Linux - both of which i use extensively), I constantly switch 
between dmd and ldc, to help verify the behaviour of my program 
(cause I don't fully trust either compiler to do what it says its 
going to do). I also do it because I do not know enough about the 
possible 'implementation defined' behaviours in the D programming 
language.