Why is D unpopular?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Sunday, 15 May 2022 at 17:21:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
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> 3. even so, when faced with a large, complex project, there's 
> just no business case for doing a conversion


This is indeed the biggest problem after a translation, since the 
social structure that made that software being written and 
maintained in the first place do not exist for the fork. It might 
works, but receive no maintenance, performance enhancements, etc.

For example in July 2021 I re-translated parts of stb-image to 
v2.27 and got a +30%/+45% performance improvement in PNG loading. 
If I were using an ideal ImportC I would just have to copy the 
new header to the codebase.

So ImportC will help keeping up with dependencies that improves 
over time instead of being cast in stone. The security argument 
is moot, this will enhance security of D programs.