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

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 14:13:18 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> For the same reason it is in C. If the ambition for D is to be 
> a system language then it should avoid introducing artificial 
> abstractions and work with the machine it runs on, not against.

The C model isn't much like x86 at all. You can do operations on 
8 bit and 16 bit registers on x86, but C doesn't reflect that 
reality.

I usually defend D's behavior of "blame C". Compatibility is 
useful for us and conservative programmers like familiarity, but 
I can't defend C's rules on the merits. They aren't like the 
processor and they aren't even that useful.