Because whatever language you think should be popular instead is running on a mountain of C code, but the reverse isn't true.
Because whatever language you think should be popular instead is running on a mountain of C code, but the reverse isn't true.
The D implementation and runtime library has zero C code in it.
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.