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

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 08:21:33 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 22:38:36 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> On 2/1/2018 3:11 AM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>>> Idea: There should be some kind of news ticker for all 
>>> enhancements and important decisions, maybe at first just via 
>>> twitter  with a special #tag  beside #dlang where all updates 
>>> are announced. And a place on the homepage, where this feed 
>>> is displayed separately.
>>
>> It's already there on the right side of https://dlang.org/
>
>>> with a special #tag  beside #dlang
> The focus was on a feed with _two_ tags #dlang and #dfoundation 
> for example.
>
> In the feed on the homepage everything is mixed up and I am 
> feeling a lot information about progress - made in the 
> background - is missing.
>
> Maybe there should be a blog post, with some kind of status 
> report every .. weeks or .. month? Telling more about the focus 
> of the D foundation, statistics of downloads, number of fixed 
> bugs, partly similar to Adams week in D but more official. I 
> think the content of such a post may find its way into more 
> mainstream IT magazines, if marked as official d foundation  
> press release even more.

The best status report I've met is definitely the FreeBSD 
quarterly status report:

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/status.html

I suggest to take a look at that, as an inspiration.... and yes, 
a quarterly report is enough.

/Paolo