C++ or D?

[Sebastiaan Koppe]

On Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 09:57:01 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 December 2020 at 07:32:31 UTC, RSY wrote:
>> Sorry for the spam, but this is because of people like him 
>> that people like me (i discovered D recently) that can't be 
>> aware of why D is a great language
>>
>> They diminish all arguments that makes D better than 
>> alternatives
>>
>>
>> You guys have to help me fight that kind of behavior, because 
>> it doesn't help D, as if it was their goal, do they want to 
>> make sure D doesn't eat specific market share, so some other 
>> language can? fishy fishy
>
> But they should be aware that C++ *as a language* has a long 
> way to go before it gets all the features etc that D has. Maybe 
> 2023, maybe 2027, who knows. Maybe that's fine for them, but 
> not for me.

Au contraire; I find that C++ has modernised relatively 
successful and has a lot of great proposals in the pipeline. Of 
course they may all get rejected, but even if only some of them 
get accepted, C++ starts to have a leg up on D in my opinion.

It could take a few years indeed, but what will D do in that same 
time window?