Why is D unpopular?

[FeepingCreature]

On Monday, 2 May 2022 at 07:05:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/1/2022 11:15 PM, FeepingCreature wrote:
>> [...]
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> It's a cool way to make it work. But I don't think it changes 
> the nature of what I was talking about.

That's fair, I'm kind of jumping in on the tail end of the 
discussion. So I'm probably missing a lot of context. I guess I 
just wanted to highlight that having compiletime in-language 
macros doesn't commit you to a compilation model that weakens the 
compiletime/runtime boundary. Anyway, I just have a hard time of 
seeing how the CLR target relates to this. Just because Nemerle 
targeted the CLR doesn't make it an interpreted language with 
regard to CTFE, because targeting the CLR doesn't actually buy 
you any simplicity in this. You can compile to code that is then 
loaded back into the running context just as easily on x86 as on 
CLR. For the purpose of compiler design, the CLR is just a 
processor, no?