Why is D unpopular?

[Guillaume Piolat]

Again: I won't answer you inevitable next message; because my 
time seems to be more limited.

On Monday, 16 May 2022 at 11:18:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> I believe MS has totally revamped their compiler suite and all 
> writings on this topic suggests that they are leading in 
> implementing C++20.

I'm not sure why do you even bring Microsoft? I found more bugs 
in ICC than MSVC fwiw.
MSVC has worse codegen, error messages, than clang, and I don't 
see a reason why that would change. MSVC has not undergo a new 
rewrite, it's part by part.


> Whatever has been true in the past may not hold in 2022.

I stand by my words, having done maintenance for both C++ and D 
projects for more than 6 years each, that D requires less 
work/debt to keep it up to date with compilers, especially 
because the front-end is the same and stdlib also the same. 
Moreover, the experience is like night and day, with D being far 
less heavy on mental load.