Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/2/2022 2:10 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
> On Monday, 2 May 2022 at 01:42:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>>
>> A language designed for native compilation draws a hard distinction between 
>> compile time and run time. You'll see this in the grammar for the language, in 
>> the form of a constant-expression for compile time, and just expression for 
>> run time. The constant-expression does constant folding at compile time. The 
>> runtime does not include a compiler.
> 
> Nope, Nemerle doesn't require a compiler runtime at runtime (however, you can 
> include it if you need to). The Nemerle compiler compiles the const-expressions 
> into a dll (yes, the target is bytecode, but it could be native code - it 
> doesn't matter) and then loads the compiled code back and executes it *at 
> compile time*. It could as well do interpretation the way D does. Both 
> approaches have their pros and cons, but they do fundamentally the same thing.

It sounds just like how Lisp, Java, and C# work. Nemerle even uses the same 
interpreter/code generator as C#.