Why is D unpopular?

[Dave Blanchard]

Why is D unpopular? Well let's see.

Several months ago I posted on here regarding the totally screwed 
up and incomprehensibly broken process you use for 
building/installing D. I didn't bother to waste time checking 
back on that thread to see any replies. I simply waited, to see 
if my concerns were addressed. They were not.

D's approach to gaining new users:

* Put a broken pile of shit up on the download page, with no 
usable instructions on what to actually do with it.

* ...

* Surprisingly, the prospective user can't do a fucking thing 
with it, of course, because there are NO INSTRUCTIONS.

The very brief instructions in the README file are worthless. 
They don't work.

The slightly more detailed instructions I find by searching on 
the internet are worthless. They don't work.

When searching, I find the Digital Mars web site apparently 
hasn't been updated since 2003.

How the fuck am I supposed to use D if I can't even get the damn 
thing installed and working, because there are NO USABLE 
INSTRUCTIONS, AT ALL?

Furthermore, I am NOT impressed by any install process that 
insists on automatically downloading junk from the internet. Also 
had a laugh about the "install script" offered on the download 
page, which one is supposed to pipe straight into bash. Yeah, if 
I were missing half my brain, I would do something like that.

Look, this is so simple even a child could do it:

Give me ONE ARCHIVE FILE which contains EVERYTHING needed to 
build and install DMD. And then put a script IN THE ROOT 
DIRECTORY of that archive which builds the compiler using what it 
has on hand--with no hassle, no bullshit, or stupid fucking 
errors.

Alternately, have two archives for download: one containing 
binaries only, which is easily unzipped into /usr (or with a 
basic script/Makefile to do the install), and one containing the 
complete source code, which can be easily bootstrapped by said 
binary package.

The README file, it should go without saying, should contain 
full, complete, clear instructions on how to do anything related 
to building and installing the compiler.

Until you pull your heads out of your asses and make the damn 
compiler actually accessible to anyone who isn't already an 
expert on bootstrapping this overcomplicated piece of shit, then 
sadly, I have no use at all for D. I'll bet there's many others 
in the same boat also.

By the way, I built my own entire Linux distro from scratch, with 
over a thousand packages that cross compile to glibc/musl, 
openssl/libressl, and x86_64/i686/arm32/arm64, so if I can't 
figure out how to successfully bootstrap DMD, then YOU HAVE A 
PROBLEM.

ADDENDUM: The CAPTCHA questions on this posting form are TOTALLY 
INSANE AND RIDICULOUS. I guess that you could be D's tagline: 
"TOTALLY INSANE AND RIDICULOUS."