What does C++ do better than D? - StackOverflow.com

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/1/11 9:09 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Andrei:
>
>> Mentioning these to the outside blows the issues out of proportion
>> and conveys the wrong message to someone coming anew to D.
>
> This is often true, unfortunately. But doing the opposite too has
> risks. If you keep saying only good things about a very complex
> systems X, people naturally start getting suspicious, because simply
> a so much complex system can't be perfect.

I didn't advocate the opposite, and I don't think my response on SE was 
only discussing the shiny city on the hill.

Andrei