Why is D unpopular?

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 9 November 2021 at 07:22:01 UTC, arco wrote:

>
> In fact I find that the geneses of D and Rust are remarkably 
> similar: both were born in a company, out of frustration with 
> C++ and the belief that their creators could design something 
> better.

Not even close to similar. Digital Mars a one-man company and D a 
one-man project. Rust had and continues to have the resources of 
Mozilla behind it.