Why is D unpopular?

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On Sunday, 12 June 2022 at 00:41:20 UTC, norm wrote:
>
> ... It is fascinating the amount of energy in D forums spent 
> talking about D's shortcomings and reminds me of the internet 
> in the late 90's early 00's where every forum chat ended in a 
> flame war.
>
> All this energy would be much better spent making software with 
> D or building up its ecosystem....but that requires work and 
> not as much fun as pointing out someone is wrong on the 
> internet. The latter requires no work at all for the same 
> physiological response in the brain as recognition by others 
> for a job well done.
>

Actually, 'the latter' as you call it, takes a LOT of work .. its 
exhausting ;-)

The 'flaming' as you call it, usually results from the 
passive-aggressive types always coming out of the woodwork...and 
they use all kinds of diversionary tactics to shutdown your 
argument:

https://medium.com/the-mission/5-tactics-used-by-passive-aggressive-arguers-and-the-best-forms-of-defense-42a9348b60ed

My argument could not be simpler:

Compiler. please enforce the invariants of my class at compile 
time, if that's what I ask you to do (with, for example, 'scope 
private int x';

It's a really, really, really, really, simple proposition.