"Competitive Advantage with D" is one of the keynotes at C++Now 2017

[XavierAP via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 11 April 2017 at 06:08:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>
> I have to say it took me a very long time to come up with the 
> title and the abstract. How could I sell D to C++ experts? 
> Luckily, I asked Manu and among a long list of ideas he said 
> "it's about saving time" and "time is money". How can you argue 
> with that? ;)

I do agree, but C++ people may be less open to buy the whole 
package at once... The other speakers (Rust, Haskell) will talk 
about specific things that they regard as nicer in their 
languages compared to C++ (safe memory access, concurrency in 
Rust; side effect safety in Haskell). C++ users can more easily 
agree to these individual points and later become interested in 
the other languages.

It's true that D's paradigm is less different from C++ and it's 
more about being better designed and safer as a whole. It's like, 
sure you can write 80% of D programs in C++ with only twice the 
typing at most, as long as your compiler supports C++14 at least, 
and you're super careful with memory... but you'll still be 
driven insane by the remaining 20% ;)