Why D is not a popular language?

[Ola Fosheim Grostad]

On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 20:33:45 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 20:13:46 UTC, John wrote:
>> On Sunday, 10 January 2021 at 19:33:01 UTC, Aaron wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Yup. Leadership, if you can call it that, wants to chase fads 
>> and implement new stuff instead of solidifying the base. 
>> Saddening, to say the least.
>
> This is not true, if you keep an eye on the druntime/dmd PR, 
> you will see that a lot of them are about refactorings and code 
> clean up.

Uhm, you just listed features D don't need: string interpolation, 
named arguments and string conversion in a runtime (stupid idea). 
  The runtime should be slimmed down to a bare minimum. The type 
system should be fixed. Memory management and shared should be 
finalized. If that requires refactorning, great. Aaron certainly 
has a point.