Why is D unpopular?

[Paul Backus]

On Monday, 15 November 2021 at 03:57:59 UTC, forkit wrote:
> I'd argue, that the ACID test of language complexity is the 
> extent to which you can make sense of the code you're looking 
> at, without any prior exposure to the language that it is 
> written in.

This seems more like a test of familiarity than complexity. A 
better metric for complexity would be something like "number of 
words in the language spec."