Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 07:07:31 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 06:30:46 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 20:17:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I've seen endless lists of features people wanted to add to C 
>>> and C++. None of them were CTFE. When we added it to D, 
>>> people were excited and surprised.
>>
>> Not if they had a decent CS background, it is a well known 
>> strategy for speeding up programs.  Wikipedia also points out 
>> a working C++ prototype from 2003, so I doubt they needed 
>> outside influence to move in that direction.
>
> Sometimes a good idea from academia needs a practical example 
> (D in this case) to show its usefulness before I sees 
> widespread adoption. That doesn't mean that it was invented by 
> D, or that there is no prior art.

Those pratical examples precede D's existence by decades, and 
what you are mentioning is not what Walter asserts, rather that 
it was D that brought it to the world.

As if all those people doing CS research in programming languages 
needed D's existence to notice what is know in academia for 
decades.