Why is D unpopular?

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On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 10:15:37 UTC, forkit wrote:
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> Personally, I'm being turned off from using D, because of 
> importC.
>
> And to 'try' to keep this thread back on topic, it's why D is 
> becoming 'unpopular' with me.
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> Please drop import-C.
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> A C hack in D is pointless.
>
> Walter, please go and create C->M (C with Modules) instead.
>
> Then make it an international standard.
>
> Then I will give serious consideration to it.

Thank you and you are saying what I thought from the beginning 
when I read about import C. Import C is an answer to a question 
we never asked. Since we don't have a preprocessor and if it ever 
will exist it will be crippled and unusable. Basically we have to 
run a .h file through GCC/Clang in order to run the preprocessor, 
then what is the point of import C if we have to use an external 
tool to begin with. Then we can just use a stand alone tool to 
convert C .h files to D which is likely to work much better as 
well. Also external tools also opens up the possibility for C++ 
and other languages translation as well, something that will 
never happen with import C.

Now we are several months into import C and Walther claimed it 
was easy to implement from the beginning which is obviously not 
true at all. If you look at the bug list, it is just riddled with 
import C bugs and will be.

Just remove import C, it is pointless and rely on external 
translation tools instead.