Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Ha.  Had D differed *too* much from C++, then we'd run the risk of
> scaring off the C++ snobs simply because it wasn't familiar enough to
> them.

It's a good point. Radically different languages tend to fail simply 
because few are willing to expend the effort to learn it. This is why 
Haskell will never catch on.



 > You can never please C++ users with another language.  Let's not get
 > hung up on attracting them.

C++ will be around and will be used as long as any of us are alive, no 
matter what. It's just a fact of life.