Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 30 April 2022 at 17:39:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/30/2022 1:32 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Switching gears to ranges, we have Smalltalk-80 collections as 
>> one possible example,
>> 
>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2409926_Interfaces_and_Specifications_for_the_Smalltalk-80_Collection_Classes
>
> C++ went the iterator approach. Ranges in C++ occurred only 
> after D did them.
>
> Also, Lisp started out as an interpreted language. Native 
> compilation came much later.
>
> I'm interested in an example of a language that started out as 
> a natively compiled language, and then added interpretation.
>
> I know back in the 80's there were some C interpreters, but 
> they were not combined with a native compiler. Nobody thought 
> to put the chocolate and the peanut butter together.
>
> No version of Fortran I ever used had CTFE.

First Lisp compiler was in 1960's....