Why is D unpopular

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 12 June 2022 at 23:09:22 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 June 2022 at 12:26:33 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
>>
>> If I could have private (or any keyword that mimics C++ 
>> private) as a optional compiler flag, I would turn that on in 
>> a heartbeat.
>
> That is actually a decent alternative (i.e. an 'optional' 
> compiler switch).
>
> But even with the support of the D community, this would likely 
> end up being something that Walter would have to implement (in 
> that messy thing known as the frontend).
>
> I'm sure he would give it is foremost attention ;-)
>
> To be honest, the more I look into Swift (I only started a few 
> days ago), the less impressed I am with D.
>
> I think Swift has a really bright future actually.
>
> https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/GuidedTour/GuidedTour.html

Swift has definitly a bright future no matter what, because it 
has one of the most powerful companies that asserts that is the 
only way to play on their turf going forward, besides Objective-C 
and C++.

Unfortunely the time for such kind of big industry players to 
pick D has moved on, they are now busy with Go, Rust, or adding 
to Java, .NET and C++ the missing pieces that made D a better 
option, while having a much bigger ecosystem in tooling and 
libraries.