Why is D unpopular, redux.

[deadalnix]

So I was catching up with he humongous thread. What stroke me in 
there is that almost everybody is missing the point, but maybe 
that isn't so surprising, as there is a self selection bias at 
play.

I especially noticed this post: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/kkmlkebnsbembkispcya@forum.dlang.org

Apparently, we are getting named argument soon. I have no opinion 
whether this is good or bad, I haven't even read he proposal. But 
I don't need to to know this is pretty bad for D, even if the 
proposal is really good.

I'd like to remind everybody of a simple fact: it is impossible 
to write a high quality generic container in D, right now. This 
is because there is no way to explain to the compiler that a 
`const Vector!T` is the same as a `const Vector!(const T)`.

There is no syntactic sugar, no optimization, no static analysis, 
no nothing that can compensate for this, just like it doesn't 
matter how comfortable the seat are on a car which has no wheels.

On the other hand, this will yet again break many tools, setting 
the ecosystem back once again. This same pattern has been 
repeating for at least a decade by now.