Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/13/2022 6:30 AM, Daniel N wrote:
> 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!

That's exactly the point.