Why is D unpopular?

[bachmeier]

On Wednesday, 3 November 2021 at 14:02:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> I doubt I would have looked at D if the connection to C++ 
> wasn't used as a "marketing trajectory".

In contrast, I knew about D for many years before even looking at 
it, because I didn't want a better C++. I wanted something that 
wasn't C++. Go and Rust clearly separated themselves from C++, so 
I used them both before trying D. The only reason I even 
downloaded DMD was because Go and Rust had a certain kind of 
suckiness to them that I kept searching.