Why is D unpopular?

[forkit]

On Tuesday, 31 May 2022 at 11:53:32 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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.

I was also one of the first adopters of Visual Basic for DOS (yes 
DOS, not Windows).

Sadly, if it wasn't from Borland, then nobody else in my circle 
at the time, would take it seriously :-(

But it set the stage for what was to some, that's for sure.