Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 4/30/2022 10:43 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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++.

As to why there aren't references to D as inspiration, and no references to 
Zortech C++'s seminal role in the early days of C++, consider this:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3613.pdf