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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 01/30/2018 04:02 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 03:45:44PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
> [...]
> 
> I actually agree with all of his points, except one: C++'s "enormous
> performance advantage"?!  Is he being serious?  Or is his view biased by
> dmd's, erm, shall we say, "suboptimal" optimizer?
> 
> Just yesterday I was experimenting with ldc while reviewing a Phobos PR,
> and it showed that LDC was well able to reduce iteration over a range
> down to a native asm loop of the same order of efficiency as an
> equivalent C++ loop.  So, the cost of D (arguably better) abstractions
> simply *isn't there*.  Both languages compile to the *same* native code.
> Where's C++'s "enormous performance advantage?"  I'm not seeing it,
> except in this article, and, presumably, in the author's imagination.
> 
> And of course, in the comments section there's the obligatory reference
> to the Tango/Phobos split in D1.  Eye-roll.  That one never gets old, it
> seems, even though it's already ancient history that the modern D
> community has mostly forgotten about.  The internet is good for
> disseminating information, and also great for prolonging ignorance.
> 
> Enough of this nonsense.  Let me get back to coding... in D. :-D

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