Why is D unpopular?

[Daniel N]

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 12:57:04 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 10:37:08 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>> Now we are several months into import C
>
> Actually, it is over a year into it now.
>
>> Import C is an answer to a question we never asked.
>

For me ImportC is *the* killer feature. Currently at work we 
simply change 1 file from *.c to *.cc fix a few compile-errors 
and done, this is why C++ became what it is, if D had this from 
day-1 then I think it would have been a huge success, I can only 
hope dlang added this feature in time to still succeed, many 
other languages are starting to catch up.

I have zero interest in adding custom build steps in exotic build 
systems to generate bindings, nor is it possible to generate 
static bindings because all other teams update their *.h files 
daily and we need to be able to use the new features without 
manual steps.

Now, if you argue that custom build steps is no big thing, then 
why is CTFE so awesome? No custom build steps, that's why!