Why is D unpopular?

[Paul Backus]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 at 12:10:36 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
>> Seriously, *never* use it. It should be removed.
>
> What would be your suggested replacement for this very 
> important functionality? But again, please first check @safe 
> attribute before suggesting anything really disruptive.

The `-check`, `-checkaction`, and `-boundscheck` switches can do 
everything `-release` does. They also give you more fine-grained 
control, so you can, e.g., disable assertions without also 
disabling array bounds checking.