D on quora ...

[AB]

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 at 06:19:01 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
>
> As always, focusing on the users of the language tends to pay a 
> lot more dividends than focusing on nay sayers.  Luckily, 
> that's how things tend to proceed here, so yay for that.
>

Feel free to ignore me then. I'll have to join this conversation 
as a naysayer: D is too little too late. It should have been 
competing with C++ since at least the early 90s. C++ should have 
**been** D.

Do you know why I'm not using D right now? Because I'm already 
invested in C++. Also I can get a prebuilt C++14 compiler running 
on a Jurassic-dated FreeDOS; meanwhile you've abandoned Windows 
XP. Where D doesn't tread, C++ persists unchallenged. What will 
happen when Microsoft drops Windows 7, are you going to drop it 
too?

So what can you do now, other than abandon all hope? You could 
standardize D ("ISO/IEC DLANG:2020"), officially endorse and 
support an "official" **standalone** IDE for it (so that it won't 
be a one-man two-user project), and cross your fingers hoping 
that C++ will run out of steam before D does.

Or, you can continue talking about GC and call me a troll. In 
which case, I'll be under yonder bridge.