C++ to catch up?

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/2/2015 12:20 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 00:49:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Thanks for the good read!
>>
>> BTW, one effect D has had is that other languages are adopting D's features,
>> though few will admit it.
>
> Yes - eerily out of the book from the Innovator's Dilemma.  But as Jonathan said
> (and maybe you too), they are trapped by their installed base so one can only do
> so much.

I can't complain. D steals from other languages, too!

But yes, adopting features is constrained by the base behavior of the language.