Why is D unpopular

[Max Samukha]

On Sunday, 12 June 2022 at 09:54:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:

>
> Many OO languages don't provide encapsulation, like Python.

Right, but Python programmers are expected to prepend private 
members with '_'.

> I would say encapsulation has more to do with scaling up and 
> evolving, as well as reliability (e.g. actors).
> But I guess you can say that OO features span a space where 
> encapsulation is one dimension.

Then it is natural to expect the feature would apply to the class 
level (if we are talking about class-based OOP)? Really, I'm yet 
to meet a D user that wouldn't be surprised 'private' is 
module-level. And the 'friend' story rarely impresses them. The 
reply is always: "Ok, 'friend' breaks OOP principles. Is D better 
because it breaks OOP in its own way?"