Why is D unpopular?

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On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 19:18:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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> 11. make it easy to incrementally convert C code to D
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> 13. make mixing and matching D and C code almost trivial

on 11. ImportC will actually dissuade people from moving away 
from C.

on 13. This too will dissuade people from moving away from C.

In essence, you're forever locking C into D. C++ made this 
mistake too.