C++ developer choices in open source projects

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 20:13:34 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:07:38 -0700
> Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> There are still two string types, something you can't quite 
>> escape dealing with.
> and D has three string types. it's even better than C++!

Only three? C++ has seven:

1. const char*  /* zero terminated single byte*/
2. const char*  /* zero terminated multi byte */
3. const wchar_t*  /* zero terminated wide */
4. std::string	
5. std::wstring
6. std::u16string
7. std::u32string