Is D still alive?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.973.1296080233.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 14:09:25 Walter Bright wrote:
>> Trass3r wrote:
>> > But once you had a test drive, you just can't get out anymore.
>>
>> I've had more than one longtime C++ expert tell me that after using D for 
>> a
>> while, then for work reasons get forced back into C++, just find 
>> themselves
>> cringing every time they edit it.
>
> LOL. Yeah. There's just so many little things that D improves on that when
> you're stuck in C++ land, you're constantly running into little things 
> that you
> miss having or are annoyed to have to deal with. auto has probably been 
> the
> biggest one for me, though slicing isn't far behind. At least auto will be 
> in
> C++ 0x...
>

For me, D's killer features were string handling (slicing and 
appending/concatenation) and *no header files*. (No more header files!! 
Yay!!!). But auto is fantastic too though, I get sooo much use out of that.