Why is D unpopular?

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 12:45:46 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> general full of "clever" preprocessor tricks that never will be 
> supported by import C.
>
> import C feels like one of those corporate blunders where the 
> management throws in resources into something that will hardly 
> sell while it was obvious from the very beginning it was a bad 
> idea.

It isn’t really all that complicated, but more like tedious. What 
you have to do is expand macros in D code and turn the resulting 
code to a D set of C-compatible AST nodes.

Not rocket science, but it is work that requires buckets of 
patience.