[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

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On Monday, 8 June 2015 at 22:17:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/8/15 12:48 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>
>> I see a problem that having those features in C++ will reduce 
>> the desire
>> from companies to adopt D.
>>
>> At very least they should acknowledge all of you guys for the 
>> ideas.
>
> As I said at DConf, D is the N word of C++. It's actually 
> comical to watch the lengths at which some folks in the 
> community go to not mention D.
>
> Anyhow, C++ playing catch up means we're doing the right things 
> and they shoot where we were a while ago. I hope the next thing 
> for us is Design by Introspection, which is going to knock the 
> socks off everyone.
>
>
> Andrei

This compile-time duck-typing thing does ring like something from 
the future, and it is interestingly different from C++'s concepts 
/ Rust traits / Haskell typeclasses. It's gonna be useful 
whenever one wants to write a good abstraction for X (which is 
super hard).