Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 17:30:46 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 6 May 2022 at 16:15:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> The point was that you need to retain dedicated users over 
>> time in order to build an eco system.
>
> http://dpldocs.info/this-week-in-d/Blog.Posted_2022_05_02.html

Well written article, but supporting @safe and @nogc is optional, 
so isn't that a self-imposed burden by authors? I'm inclined to 
believe that authors giving up on libraries have other causes, 
but I could be wrong.

Anyway, it is very difficult to grow the eco-system until you 
have retention, until then "gravity" won't happen. And without 
gravity you won't have enough maintainers of a library to sell 
stability…

It is great to see that Max has joined SDC, by browsing through 
the repo it looks like a lot of effort has gone into it! That is 
the kind of "gravity" that you need. If you have two highly 
active developers, you might get three and so on… Increasing 
belief in the long term viability of the project.