D programming language popularity

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This kind of thread seems to pop up once in a while in this 
forum. I read threads in this forum a lot more than i participate 
in the discussion but now I'll give my 2 cents. Don't take it too 
seriously.

Disclaimer: While I will write only negative aspects below, D is 
actually the language I like most from all I have tried (C, C++, 
C#, Swift, Python). It has it's quirks but other languages are 
also far from perfect.

1. Librarys:
- There are not a lot libraries and if you find one it will most 
probably not compile.

- If you find a working library the documentation is likely bad. 
You always hear the argument: "It's open source, you can help out 
writing documentation".
This is hilarious because if I want to write documentation for 
your library, I have to read and understand your code first. I 
will need 10-100x more time than the one who wrote the library.
The whole point of abstraction is that you abstract away the 
implementation. If i have to read your source to use your library 
it's just pointless.

2. It's too close to C++ to be worth the drawback:
- If you plan writing a serious long living project C++ is just a 
much safer choice.
Yes C++ looks ugly and D corrected a lot of bad design decisions, 
but both languages are still very similar. If you hold your nose 
and write C++ you will benefit from all the tooling and ecosystem.

3. Garbage Collector:
- If you can live with GC there are nice alternatives. Kotlin 
looks promising.
C# is also a really decent language in my opinion (and cross 
platform with .net 5).
A language compiling to native code with system level features 
and a GC is just a strange niche. You can turn of the GC but then 
you can't use all of the language anymore. I can't imagine a 
situation in which i really have to use a native language but 
want a GC...