D programming language popularity

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On Sunday, 8 November 2020 at 13:39:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
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> The problem is that raw C pointers can be owning pointers. So 
> it would be a breaking change.

We need to break this change because if we don't D will not 
progress. The alternative is some pointer container as if we 
would litter C++ std::shared_ptr all over the place, not too 
happy about that though. This will of course be a library change 
but I think we should have a language classifier for it. This 
doesn't really need to be a breaking change but an additional 
"fat pointer".