Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 18:05:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/29/2022 10:00 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Those were interpreters first and added native code generation 
> later. D did is the other way around, and the native code 
> generating compilers started doing it soon afterwards.

Decades before D was even an idea.

Again, SIGPLAN.