Why is D unpopular?

[rikki cattermole]

On 18/05/2022 6:19 AM, Dave Blanchard wrote:
> 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.

That isn't possible.

D requires the source for druntime and phobos as part of normal compilation.

Even the minimalist build using -betterC is still going to need object.d 
from druntime.

But yeah over all especially since now the reference D frontend is in D 
we really need to sort out our bootstrapping situation. But alas, that 
would require LTS's.