Why is D unpopular?

[Daniel N]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 08:32:19 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Friday, 29 April 2022 at 19:44:09 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>
> Switching gears to ranges, we have Smalltalk-80 collections as 
> one possible example,
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2409926_Interfaces_and_Specifications_for_the_Smalltalk-80_Collection_Classes

Let's focus on smalltalk, what syntax do you use to choose if 
your code snippet should run at runtime or in compiletime? Not 
the entire program, but 50% compile-time and 50% runtime.