Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Walter Bright]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Rainer Deyke wrote:
>>> Syntactic ambiguity.  Confusion between an instance of a class and a
>>> reference to that instance.
>> I was initially thrown by this when I started some Java programming. But
>> it soon became clear this was an advantage, and I came to prefer it.
> 
> I like it in Python, where all variables are references.  Java is
> similar to Python in this regard, although the existence of primitive
> value types complicates the situation somewhat.
> 
> I don't like it in D, where reference types and value types coexist.  I
> especially don't like it in templates in D, where it may not be clear if
> you're dealing with a reference type or a value type until instantiation.


Is C++ really better in that regard? Given a non-trivial struct or class 
declaration, I'd be hard pressed to determine if it was meant to be a 
value or reference type.