Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018 19:01:46 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> On 1/31/2018 6:14 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > I have to wonder if my settings are right. I've never noticed any color
> > in error messages. Messing around with some errors right now, the only
> > color I see is that "Error:" is in red, and some of the text is bolded,
> > so it's white instead of the grey that text is normally on my console.
> > Maybe my console's settings aren't interacting with the color stuff
> > very well.
> Nah, it's just the code in dmd:
>
>     if (username == "Jonathan")
>         color = off;    // muwa-ha-ha-hah!

Clearly, there are downsides to actually knowing the people who work on the
compiler. ;)

- Jonathan M Davis