Why is D unpopular?

Fri May 13 23:24:14 UTC 2022

On Friday, 13 May 2022 at 22:49:09 UTC, forkit wrote:
> In essence, you're forever locking C into D. C++ made this 
> mistake too.

Yes, but that decision has been there all the time by keeping 
weird things from C such as messy operator precedence.

I am more concerned about compiler internals and refactoring.

(D's biggest mistake was to not align semantics with C++ and 
incorporate clang for C++ interop, but that is too late now.)