Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/30/2022 2:30 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> D hasn't invented anything newer here, and regardless of the wishfull thinking 
> that it did, you won't find any references to D as inspiration to those features 
> in modern languages papers like HOPL, rather to those that have preceeded it.

You won't find any references to D as inspiration for static if in C++, either, 
despite the fact that Andrei, Herb, and I submitted a formal proposal for it for 
C++.