Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

[eao197]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:05:26 +0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> eao197 wrote:
>> BTW, there is a C++0x overview in Wikipedia:  
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x
>>  It is iteresting to know which advantages will have D (2.0? 3.0? 4.0?)  
>> over C++0x? May be only high speed compilation and GC.
>
> Looks like C++ is adding D features thick & fast!

Yes! But C++ is doing that without breaking existing codebase. So  
significant amount of C++ programmers needn't look to D -- they will have  
new advanced features without dropping their old tools, IDE and libraries.

I'm affraid that would play against D :(

Current C++ is far behind D, but D is not stable, not mature, not equiped  
by tools/libraries as C++. So it will took several years to make D  
competitive with C++ in that area. But if in 2010 (it is only 2.5 year  
ahead) C++ will have things like lambdas and autos (and tons of libraries  
and army of programmers), what will be D 'killer feature' to attract  
C++ programmers? And not only C++, at this time D would compete with new  
versions of C#, Java, Scala, Nemerle (probably) and with some of  
functional languages (like Haskell and OCaml).

-- 
Regards,
Yauheni Akhotnikau