Why is D unpopular?

[Bruce Carneal]

On Monday, 2 May 2022 at 00:21:10 UTC, Araq wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 May 2022 at 21:00:23 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>
>> C++ is not in a position to fake that it cares about tooling. 
>> That train has already landed... (What? :p)
>>
>
> "X is already bad so let's make it worse."
>
>> Although tooling is a good point againts the proposal to 
>> discuss, it is nothing important to make anyone to write a 
>> paper to preemptively kill a proposal. After all, they could 
>> write (or say) that another token might be used. How about the 
>> angle brackets?
>>
>>   static if (condition) <
>>     // ...
>>   >
>>
>> Solved. :)
>
> The tooling problem is not caused by the syntax but by the 
> scoping rules.

Yep.  A lot of utility in scopeless but I'd imagine it's harder 
on the tooling folk (no guarantee of trivial mappings).  Still, I 
think that upgrading the tooling is preferable to hobbling the 
language.