Why is D unpopular?

[Tejas]

On Saturday, 7 May 2022 at 03:24:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/6/2022 12:26 AM, Araq wrote:
>> It was in the Nim(rod) compiler which is a Modula 3 derivate 
>> quite early in the project's lifetime, maybe as early as 2004, 
>> maybe later, I don't remember. And maybe D had it earlier. 
>> However:
>> 
>> 1. I'm quite sure I didn't copy it from D. Because:
>> 2. Nim actually **needs** it because otherwise its AST macro 
>> system simply cannot work.
>> 
>
> You wrote the Nimrod compiler? I'm impressed!

His project is still alive, but renamed to 
[Nim](https://nim-lang.org/)

It's also competing with D as a do-it-all language, ie, is 
suitable for high level as well as low level programming