Why is D unpopular?

Sat May 21 04:14:19 UTC 2022

On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 02:55:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/20/2022 12:01 AM, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>> You skipped my comment about default unstable sort in Phobos, 
>> but such decision also erodes safety to some extent.
>
> The language and Phobos are two different things.

I disagree. The language can't become popular without a good 
standard library that is bundled with it out of the box. Phobos 
is very much relevant to the topic of this thread and hand waving 
"oh, but the core language is okay" doesn't help.