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[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 07:21:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> It's a good sign that C++ has been copying D features recently, 
> it means they're feeling the heat.

I suspect that it's not so much that they're really feeling any 
pressure from D so much as that when they see a cool feature that 
they think could be made to reasonably fit into C++ and improve 
it, they do it (or at least try to - obviously, not everything 
actually makes it in). And some of the improvements that D made 
are natural enough that the C++ guys could have easily come up 
with them on their own (whereas others almost had to have come 
from someone who had seen them in D).

The fact that C++ has taken some of D's features is definitely a 
good sign for D in that it shows their value, and it means that 
we're getting some good cross-pollination going on between 
languages, but I very much doubt that all that many serious C++ 
folks feel that D is much of a threat to them - not at this point 
anyway. D is a magnet for folks wanting something better than 
C++, but we haven't grown enough yet to challenge C++ in any 
serious way as far as market share goes.

- Jonathan M Davis