[OT] What are D's values?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 at 20:00:42 UTC, jfondren wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 at 17:53:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> This is particularly powerful in UFCS chains: if you had to 
>> implement the UFCS chain in C, for example, you'd have to 
>> rewrite a whole bunch of types, variable declarations, etc., 
>> every time you need to do something like insert a new 
>> component into the chain, or reorder the chain.  That makes 
>> refactoring the equivalent code in C an onerous task,
>
> This is all great, but C is too weak a competitor for it to be 
> persuasive to someone who needs persuading.
>

C has the whole market of UNIX clones, Khronos standards, and 
embedded for itself, where C++ after 30 years trying hardly 
managed to make dent.