2015 H1 Vision

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 05:17:40 UTC, Jerry Morrison wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 03:50:10 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> C and C++ are very general-purpose, but they can still be 
>> considered as a "niche" of performance languages.  What's 
>> wrong with D aiming for that "niche?"
>
> Most uses of C & C++ that haven't migrated to well-supported 
> garbage-collected languages by now are those that cannot work 
> with a garbage collector and/or are heavily tied to an existing 
> C++ code base. Offering something much better for that 
> niche/domain would be a great opportunity, and not a small 
> niche.
>
> The point is to focus efforts for one release on fully 
> addressing what that domain requires. The next release can 
> focus on another domain. And so on.

Well, given the current focus on @nogc and C++ integration, it 
appears that niche has been chosen, and you and Ola get your wish.