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by vips7L 1751 days ago
I think you're discounting how much having Google backing you adds to popularity. D has static typing, compiles to native, works on every major platform, and has been around far longer, but doesn't have near the adoption of Go.
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Same case for Nim, I really enjoy working with it.
Or Pascal. Wirth's most popular languages

It has a unique combination of features that I cannot find in any other languages

Unfortunately there is a disturbing lack of quality libraries. I have to write everything myself. Really everything. A few days ago I wrote my own string to int conversion.

Having actually tried using D, it has far more warts than Go.