Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Rainer Deyke]

Walter Bright wrote:
> My experience with C++ people sticking with it is they are so used to
> the problems they no longer see them. To me it's like the mess in one's
> house. One doesn't notice it until going on a vacation (i.e. learning a
> another language), having one's hotel room cleaned every day, then
> coming home and suddenly seeing how untidy it is <g>.

I want to throw these words back at you, because my first impression of
D was "the bastard child of C++ and Java, with a random assortment of
new features thrown in without rhyme or reason".  D is many things, but
a simple and elegant language it is not.  (This is not a major problem
to me, really.  I can live with messy languages.  I can live with C++.
But to think that D is a massive improvement in this area requires a
special sort of perspective.)

The reason I have stuck with C++ despite its (massive, obvious) flaws is
that it has a couple of really nice and useful features that very few
other languages have even attempted to match.  D is the only language I
know that even tries, although it still falls short in many areas.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com