A Few thoughts on C, C++, and D

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 21:43:30 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> Incremental is key. It's what enabled me to use D for my work. 
> Apologies to anyone that feels only enterprise code bases with 
> at least 10 million lines of code are worth talking about, but 
> good luck convincing anyone to rewrite a code base that 
> critical and that big.

I don't think Russel Winder was talking about enterprise code, 
but for a language to take hold you need at least one significant 
publicly visible application written in it.

E.g. Go has Docker, Rust has a Firefox engine,  and so on... It 
is taken as a sign of maturity.