Quora: Why hasn't D started to replace C++?

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2018-01-31 at 13:54 +0000, Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 07:56:37 UTC, Andrew Benton 
> wrote:
> > E.g. three compilers
> 
> Every other compiled language (and a lot of scripting ones) uses 
> the fact of multiple compilers for the language as a sign of 
> adoption and ecosystem growth.

Definitely.

> I've only ever seen people complain about D in this area. Never 
> once have I seen someone argue that the existence of PyPy hurts 
> Python or gogcc hurts Go.

D should be proud of having a reference compiler, a GCC-based one, and
an LLVM-based one. This is a Good Thing™, let no-one undermine this.

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