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

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 08:17 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0000, Russel Winder via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > 
[…]
> > For me:
> > 
> > aptitude install ldc
> > aptitude install gdc
> > aptitude install dmd-bin
> > aptitude install dub
> > 
> > Seems to work fine, and no conflicts.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Only because the OS has a sane packaging system (and some people were
> kind enough to package the compilers in nice packages). For
> less-privileged OSes, the user experience could be drastically
> different. ;-)

I see two obvious inferences:

a) use a platform with a good packaging system, and good packaging
team.

b) if you cannot use a such a system, raise the problem and then get
involved in fixing it.

-- 
Russel.
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