Why do C++ programmers are not interested in D?

Jab jab_293 at gmall.com
Sun Nov 24 23:18:29 UTC 2019


On Sunday, 24 November 2019 at 17:54:56 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 November 2019 at 15:30:10 UTC, Jab wrote:
>> On Sunday, 24 November 2019 at 13:01:13 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> There's a big update every 6 years, with a minor update every 
>> 6 years, but an update every 3 years.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I think a big part of that was because of MSVC. They weren't 
>> C++11 compliant for a long time. Now you do have clang on 
>> Windows and I think even chrome/firefox use it as their 
>> compiler of choice on Windows instead of Microsoft's compiler. 
>> Back then there wasn't really any other C++ compiler on 
>> Windows worth using. Both clang/MSVC are kept up to date 
>> pretty quickly now.
>
> Other than Intel, PGI and Codegear.

Like I said, no other C++ compiler on Windows worth using.



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