Why is D unpopular?

[Araq]

On Sunday, 1 May 2022 at 02:18:37 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> > The tooling problems that result from
> > `static if` are real.
>
> Oh! I must have missed their point.

I cannot tell if you're sarcastic or not but the major point of 
contention is the scoping involved, `static if` doesn't introduce 
a new scope (and that's a feature) whereas C++'s `if constexpr` 
does introduce a scope. This really does make quite a difference 
for tooling.