Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 10 June 2022 at 23:13:22 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> Its a above average compiler, its just that the average languge 
> on a scale to 1-10 is maybe 2

Unrelated, you can implement a good model in a spartan language 
like C and end up with high quality on every level. It takes more 
discipline, that's all.

Few people are good at designing architectures. Most good 
archirctures build on the experience from other architectures: 
you need to study the work of others before you write a single 
line of code. Or write many compilers with different strategies.

If you go DIY and focus heavily on performance then the 
architecture will not be able to take on novel new features 
without a significant toll on the code base. At some point you'll 
be deadlocked into a backlog of bugs to fix.