Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Aug 22 23:14:39 PDT 2007


eao197 wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:26:33 +0400, Robert Fraser 
>> You seem to forget that D is evolving, too. C++ might get a lot of the 
>> cool D features (albiet with ugly syntax), but by that time, D might 
>> have superpowers incomprehensible to the C++ mind.
> 
> I didn't. From my point of view, permanent envolvement is a main D's 
> problem. I can't start use D on my work regulary because D and Tango is 
> not stable enough. I can't start teach students D because D 1.0 is 
> obsolete and D 2.0 is not finished yet.

I don't understand this. You could as well say that C++98 is obsolete 
and C++0x is not finished yet.


> To outperform C++ in 2009-2010 D must have full strength now and must be 
> stable during some years to proof that strength in some killer 
> applications.

C++0x's new features are essentially all present in D 1.0.




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