D popularity

[John Colvin]

On Monday, 21 January 2013 at 20:46:22 UTC, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:06 PM, H. S. Teoh 
> <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:28:21AM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
>> It's the butterfly effect in programming.
>>
>>
>>> 3 cases:
>>>
>>> 1. unittests (as you mentioned)
>>> 2. ddoc
>>> 3. new lambda syntax
>
> 4. Templates.
>
> I never (almost) used templates in C++. Certainly not to the 
> level I'm
> using them in D right now (metaprogramming for the win!)

Same here. I couldn't stand using templates in C++, but in D I 
use them every day, extensively.