Why is D unpopular?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 07:35:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/17/2022 2:09 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> It surely does, read the graphic with attention, 8%.
>
> And so it does, you're right. 8% of the enormous Java market is 
> huge.

Yeah, but it got there thanks to Google replacing Java with 
Kotlin on Android, althought they might still be "commited" to 
their Android Java flavour in regards to backwards compatibility.

You know how to turn Java code into Groovy?

Start by changing the file extension from .java to .groovy, yet 
it can hardly do better than 6%, and mostly thanks to Gradle 
being around, and having been chosen as Android's official build 
system.

This is what D lacks, the killer use case, ImportC on its own 
will hardly change the current adoption state.