Why D is not popular enough?

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/08/16 22:55, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
> I'm surprised that I've never seen anyone else use such a technique.
> It's so unusual I've seen it be unrepresentable in some 'make'
> replacements.
> 
> I suppose it's like unittest and ddoc. Sure, you can do it with some
> contortions and/or some external tooling, but having it conveniently
> built in to the language changes everything.
> 

Actually, even with it being easilly accessible in the compiler, there
are sometimes reasons to still do it with an external tool.

My next task at work requires precomputing a table. This might prove to
be a quite intensive task, and the result will change quite rarely.
Under those circumstances, I believe I will not wish to compute it each
time the system is compiled, but to compute it when it changes and use a
cached version.

This means I still need a build rule for it, which means that if the
build system does not support it, sucks to be me.

Shachar