Ownership and borrowing are so much less baroque in D than in Rust. And compile times are superb.

In a better world, we would all be using D instead of C, C++ or Rust.

However in this age of Kali...

Edit: Instead of downvoting, just answer the question if you've upvoted it. But I'm guessing it's the same sock accounts that upvoted it.

Never has an old language gained traction, its all about the initial network effects created by excitement.

No matter how much better it is from C now, C is slowly losing traction and its potential replacements already have up and running communities (Rust, zig etc)