Why is D unpopular?

[Tejas]

On Wednesday, 4 May 2022 at 01:54:30 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 5/3/22 18:03, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/3/2022 4:50 PM, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> Actually:
>>> https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/2379
>> 
>> 
>> That's dated 2019, 12 years after D acquired Compile Time 
>> Function Execution
>
> They acknowledge: "This feature would be pretty similar to 
> other languages supporting CTFE, like D or C++11 with 
> constexpr."
>
> Ali

Looks like they're not planning on adding it at a compiler level, 
rather depending on the optimisations made at the Intermediate 
Language level to do it