Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Walter Bright]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> I don't care about your coding standards.  I know how to use C++.  I
> have my own rules about how to use it safely and effectively, rules that
> I have spent a lifetime refining.

I've been writing software for 35 years. I'm still learning new ways of 
doing things and discarding old ones.


> (And, truly, D is better in this regard than many of its competitors.
> Perhaps the awesome power of string mixins will be enough to offset its
>  missing features.

Probably the most frustrating thing to me when coding C++ is the lack of 
nested functions. The workaround is awfully ugly.