Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 15:28:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/27/2022 8:59 AM, Satoshi wrote:
>> Also I don't know why they didn't take the inspiration from 
>> other modern languages.
>
> Other languages have taken inspiration from D, such as ranges 
> and compile time expression evaluation.
>
>....

Sorry, Lisp, ML, CLU and Smalltalk did it first, D was surely not 
the first in this regard.

Plenty of SIGPLAN papers on the subject.