Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 19:33:18 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> We're strange. IIRC Bjarne's third C++ book from 1998 already 
> discusses a bit about ranges, albeit calling them "sequences". 
> It shows a few examples how they can work, by pairing iterators 
> into one type, and then goes on to other topics.

What C++ call iterators are usually called table pointers or 
cursors. What D calls ranges are usually called iterators (or 
generators).

They have different usages.