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

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 4 February 2018 at 18:00:22 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> What the D Foundation needs is a CEO who is a good CEO. Good 
> CTOs
> rarely make good CEO, though it is possible.

Well, I don't think making some hard decisions about memory 
management, which is the most apparent issue with D, is a CTO/CEO 
problem.  It is more an issue of not being willing to make some 
sacrifices in order to gain momentum.

If "better C" is the new strategy, then that is fine, if that 
means you will make "better C" the main focus, going lean.

If it means that you have essentially forked into two main 
directions... then it just makes it even harder to gain momentum.