C++ developer choices in open source projects

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

http://www.codergears.com/Blog/?p=421

This is interesting as it relates to D's choices:

1. No common build system ,Visual Studio, make and  CMake are the most widely used

D - no change.

2. Namesapces not widely used

D - forces use of namespaces, i.e. modules

3. Inheritance and polymorphism are widely used

It's my impression that D uses a lot more parametric polymorphism (i.e. 
templates) than virtual inheritance.

4. Design Patterns not widely used

Don't know if D changes that.

5. No common frameworks for the GUI, database access and logging needs.

Same for D, though std.experimental.logger may change that.

6. Smart pointers not enough used

The general problem with SP is you have to proactively use them, they are not 
the default. D's gc pointers are the default.

7. STL widely used , not boost

Phobos' ranges appear to be widely used.

8. Exceptions not widely used

Exceptions are embraced in D, perhaps even excessively :-)

9. For many projects two or more ways used to represent a string class

D's strings are built-in to the language, which is a huge win for consistency. 
Even modern C++ suffers from two distinct string types.

10. New created projects use more the new C++ standards

As they should.