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On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 08:05:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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

IMO I think the worst thing C++ has done is blatantly ignore 
features that have been 'killer' in D(see: the reaction to the 
static_if proposal)