Why is D unpopular?

[Patrick Schluter]

On Sunday, 1 May 2022 at 20:31:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/1/2022 6:35 AM, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
>> **slices**
>>     Go and Rust had it from the start, Nimrod got them etc.
>>     I unfortunately lack the time to do a complete research 
>> about prior, because it seems surprising to me no other native 
>> language had them before D. I have a strong feeling that like 
>> other successful features, the experience of D was strongly 
>> influencing other designs.
>
> D slices date back to 2001 or so. I don't know any language 
> before that that had such a thing as part of the language. Of 
> course people would do it in ad-hoc manners.
>

As mentioned in my other comment, Sinclair BASIC had something 
very close to it (and I think HP had the same thing in their 
BASIC interpreters).