Why is D unpopular?

[mee6]

On Monday, 30 May 2022 at 17:22:04 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 30 May 2022 at 16:45:45 UTC, mee6 wrote:
>> On Monday, 30 May 2022 at 16:05:52 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Monday, 30 May 2022 at 07:23:46 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I love it.
>>>
>>> It kinda reminds me that politic arise from the failure of 
>>> technology. If we could make car that can drive 100% safely 
>>> at 1000000km/h, then we wouldn't see the need for speed limit.
>>
>> High speed trains? The car was a mistake, building cities 
>> around cars like they do in America adds onto that mistake.
>
> Ha, and this one:
>
>  - "D is not making the progress it could because the community 
> focuses on unimportant problems that don't move the needle 
> much."
>  - "High speed trains? The car was a mistake, building cities 
> around cars like they do in America adds onto that mistake."

Lol I know right, some people idolize cars so much they can't see 
a different way to live. Hail Satan.

For D, it really is spread out thin. Only D had 2 standard 
libraries. Only D has 3 separate compilers. Copying rust with 
@live when D has a GC.