Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 10:20:00 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 09:19:46 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> Unless you happened to have been like myself, working for a 
>> Microsoft certified partner with access to pre-release builds 
>> of .NET 1.0, those MSDN CDs with red documentation, I doubt 
>> the 22 years, but who's couting just a couple of months until 
>> October 2023.
>
> Yes, indeed, the company I worked for back then were an MCP, 
> and they (the company) provided me with an *full* MSDN 
> subscription (which was very expensive back then). This is 
> precisely why I got on board with C# (or specifically, .NET) so 
> early. I was already developing when it was in beta (and still 
> use it today).
>
> Before that, it was... grr... grrr.. grrrrrr.... C!
>
> ....

Faire enough.