D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

Dmitri via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed May 13 03:58:23 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:51:17 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote:
>> For those keeping track of every mentioning of D in the media 
>> (Hi Andrei!):
>>
>> The following article about Rust made it to the front page of 
>> HN and /r/programming recently: 
>> http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531822
> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/35pn5a/criticizing_the_rust_language_and_why_cc_will/
>
> As has been pointed out above, this is written by ... a company 
> that sells static C++ analyzers for a living. D and Rust's goal 
> is to put them out of business... so, naturally, there's some 
> conflict of interest.

As a tiny nitpick - the article has, in fact, been written by 
this guy:
http://eax.me/cpp-will-never-die/

who, AFAIK, is not related to Program Verification Systems.

-dmitri.


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