[avar]

Because whatever language you think should be popular instead is running on a mountain of C code, but the reverse isn't true.

[WalterBright]

The D implementation and runtime library has zero C code in it.

[avar]

And when you run that compiler implementation, what language family was used to implement the OS and kernel it's running on, the firmware you're using etc?

That's what I meant, not that self hosted compliers don't exist.