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

[Martin Tschierschke]

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 11:42:14 UTC, Seb wrote:
[...]
> This is about to change soon for D. There's WIP to use 
> OpenCollective
> The announcement should happen soon.
> Stay tuned!
[...]
> Here's a spoiler:
>
> 1) Andrei does an excellent job at managing his students [1] 
> and there work over the last couple of months has been 
> tremendous. As the experiment with UPB was very successful, 
> there will be more projects like this one and global scholarship
>
> 2) The vision document will finally get updated (there have 
> been a few delays due to holiday, illnesses etc.)
>
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Vision/2017H2
>
> 3) More community input (I'm preparing a State of D survey atm)
>
> 4) More active voting by the community on important issues
>
> 5) Better documentation and overview on what the foundation is 
> doing
>
> Currently under discussion/work:
>
> 6) Using OpenCollective for tracking expenses openly
> 7) Offering membership packages for companies
> 8) Doing bi-annual Kickstarter compaigns for important issues 
> to the community (e.g. "fix shared")
[...]
>
> As mentioned above, there's. However, it's not very visible as 
> a lot of work happens in stealth-mode atm and only a tiny bit 
> makes it to the DBlog:
>
> https://dlang.org/blog/category/core-team
> https://dlang.org/blog/category/d-foundation

Thank you for your post, very interesting background information.

I like 7) and 8) very much! ( 8) needs 4) )