Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Michiel
Helvensteijn<m.helvensteijn.remove at gmail.com> wrote:

> D just doesn't offer enough improvements over C++ to make it worthwhile
> switching over. Its design is not very adventurous, keeping simply too
> close to that of the C family, making it look like Yet Another C Language.
> I believe simply filling in the gaps of C++ wasn't enough to take over the
> world. There should have been a greater change.

Ha.  Had D differed *too* much from C++, then we'd run the risk of
scaring off the C++ snobs simply because it wasn't familiar enough to
them.

You can never please C++ users with another language.  Let's not get
hung up on attracting them.