Why is D unpopular?

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 11:49:27 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 06:40:30 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>> Isn't the advice to use `enforce` for handling/verifying input 
>> in release builds and `assert` for development builds though?
>> Yeah, it's violating DRY if a particular check needs to be 
>> done in both development and release, but then one can skip 
>> the `assert` and just do `enforce`, no?
>
> argh!
>
> I often forget that D removes assert in release mode :-(
>
> If only we had Rust style asserts.
>
> And by that, I specifically mean:
>
> "Assertions are always checked in both debug and release 
> builds, and cannot be disabled. See debug_assert! for 
> assertions that are not enabled in release builds by default."
>
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.assert.html

"enforce" in D is the same as "assert!" in Rust
"assert" in D is the same as "debug_assert!" in Rust

Looks like you are only unhappy about names, but all the 
necessary functionality is available.