It might be becoming a niche language for smaller to medium-sized projects. But it's being used in a host of big applications, from games to game tools, 3D tools, audio tools, compilers, front ends and back ends to just about everything. I don't think many of these will be ported to a different language (such as D) unless absolutely necessary. For those big projects C++ isn't going anywhere any time soon.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, bearophile <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bearophileHUGS@lycos.com">bearophileHUGS@lycos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
C++ is slowly becoming a niche language, but it's a large niche still, and it's years that people try to look for something better. But even if no new features are added to D2 for some time, I think it will take something like two more years to have a language+compiler good enough for serious purposes.<br>
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