D popularity

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, January 21, 2013 21:53:35 F i L wrote:
> and on that note I hear the C++ community (at least one key
> member) is proposing a:
> 
> auto add(auto a, auto b) {
> return a + b;
> }
> 
> pretty-template syntax! I wouldn't feel right if C++ had
> something that elegant and D did not *wink* *wink* :-)

It's been discussed before and rejected.

- Jonathan M Davis