Why is D unpopular?

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On Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 03:10:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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An assert is useful in the context of a proposition about a 
program, where the proposition is asserted to hold.

That is all it is really.

I think people try to make more of it, than they should ;-)

e.g.

assert(something != NULL);

But I can handle this same proposition without an assert.

Some history:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/Papers/FloydMeaning.pdf

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/987531.987535