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

[Walter Bright]

On 1/31/2018 5:54 AM, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 07:56:37 UTC, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> E.g. three compilers
> 
> Every other compiled language (and a lot of scripting ones) uses the fact of 
> multiple compilers for the language as a sign of adoption and ecosystem growth.
> 
> I've only ever seen people complain about D in this area. Never once have I seen 
> someone argue that the existence of PyPy hurts Python or gogcc hurts Go.

Back when D had only one compiler, dmd, people complained it had only one 
compiler. Now that it has three, they complain that it has three.

Sometimes, ya just gotta ignore people.