Why is D unpopular?

[max haughton]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 02:05:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/23/2022 7:07 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> C asserts are included or not based on various defines.
>
> Building them in offers some semantic advantages,
>
> 1. being able to get them to do things line insert a HLT 
> instruction
> 2. format an error message based on stringizing the expression
> 3. people won't be motivated to create their own

Another reason is that forcing people down a blessed road means 
that the means you provide for fiddling with behaviour can be 
composed together much more easily (whether this be some runtime 
hook or merely all Assertions throwing the same Error).