Why D is not popular enough?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 August 2016 at 18:21:05 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:

>> [...]
> I have never experienced D as being unstable.  I have, however, 
> experienced problems using various libraries with D.  Whenever 
> you need to use a foreign library you invite problems, but D 
> wrappers around libraries have a habit of showing up and then 
> not being maintained.  THAT has caused me problems...enough 
> problems that if I don't need the performance I'll pick Python.
>
> [...]

However, the good thing about D is that you don't need to use all 
the idioms, if you really don't want to. You can write simple 
C-like code with loops. You don't need to have hundreds of 
template constraints, if you don't want/need to. To get started 
with D you don't need to be able to master template constraints, 
CTFE and ranges from day one. This knowledge will come naturally 
as you go along, but it's not a conditio sine qua non.

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