Why is D unpopular?

[Araq]

On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 14:21:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Zortech C++ was about 4 times faster than cfront based C++ on 
> DOS machines. This was my measurements. I agree it had nothing 
> to do with templates. Personally I doubt Stroustrup had ever 
> tried ZTC++.
>
> I was wrong, ZTC++ came out in 1988, not 1987.
>
> DOS computers were where the great mass of programmers were at 
> the time. 90% is likely conservative. The programming magazines 
> were all focused on DOS programming, the articles about C++ 
> were for DOS C++ programming.
>
> Before ZTC++, the traffic on comp.lang.c++ and 
> comp.lang.objectivec was about the same, and not very much. 
> After ZTC++, the traffic in comp.lang.c++ took off, and 
> comp.lang.objectivec stagnated.

Thank you!