[OT] - C++ exceptions are becoming more and more problematic

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 16:37:42 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 February 2022 at 15:17:01 UTC, Bruce Carneal 
> wrote:
>> C++ is today's safe choice
>
> One problem is that the people left in C++ have avoided going 
> with either Java, C#, or any of the new native languages. The 
> population that said no those AND to the newer native languages 
> skews towards very conservative choices. As such no language 
> seen as "alternative" enter their worldview because "only C++ 
> can do it".
>
> Even if you compete with them, the C++ competition will still 
> won't believe there are alternatives to C++. In the real world, 
> starting a C++ codebase today is much less cost-effective than 
> in D, and this debt cause a lot of dividend payments, and also 
> it costs a lot of senior C++ engineers to make sense of the 
> most complicated programming language we have.
>
> The only way is to displace the incumbent not convince them.

Languages one their own are meaningless, you aren't competing 
with C++, you are competing with platforms and industry standards 
that happen to make use of C++.

Disrupting those platforms and industry standards with D, that 
should be the focus.