Why is D unpopular?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/24/2022 4:26 AM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> It is a terrible switch that does random bad things.

Back in the olden daze, I've seen magazine compiler benchmark articles trash 
various compilers for poor runtime performance. It nearly always boiled down to 
the journalist not using the right switches for release builds.

So I'm leery of not being able to turn off the runtime checks to get max 
performance.

Besides, it provides a way of accurately measuring how much the runtime checks 
are costing.