Why is D unpopular?

[electricface]

On Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 00:55:32 UTC, electricface wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 May 2022 at 17:25:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/14/2022 9:13 AM, tastyminerals wrote:
>>> Why a simple code example is missing from the article brings 
>>> me to the topic of this thread.
>>
>> Which ImportC article? Or did you mean the documentation? We 
>> can improve it.
>
> Why is D unpopular?
> I think the current language is good enough, but the IDE for 
> programmers is not good enough, not smart enough to read and 
> refactor code easily.

I think it might be better to use a part of the D compiler 
front-end as a language server, preferably to support all the 
good features of the language.