Is D really that bad?

[Imperatorn]

On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 15:55:33 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 28 October 2022 at 09:51:04 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>> [...]
>
> The language itself isn't bad, it actually quite alright, when 
> I bough Andrei's book, I thought to have found a modern version 
> of Modula-3 and Delphi.
>
> However in all these years, the direction was never clear, and 
> its use at Facebook and Remedy didn't do much to help it grow 
> adoption.
>
> Nowadays although D the language is quite nice, for my line of 
> work, the ongoing improvements in Java and C# languages for low 
> level coding + AOT + ecosystem, mean that in no way I would be 
> able to convince my peers to use D.
>
> On top of that, for better or worse, Go and Rust are also 
> creeping in into my line of work, as we are adopting frameworks 
> written in those languages, making it even harder to try to 
> advocate for D.
>
> So for me, D remains one of the languages that I have fun doing 
> hobby coding.

Same for me. But I never understand why. If D was called Rust 
instead, would it be more popular or widely used? I seriously 
don't know sometimes. It feels like fashion