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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 03:47:50PM +0000, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-02-01 at 15:27 +0000, Benny via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > 
> […]
> > Nothing wrong with choice as long as that choice does not 
> > introduces issues. Currently there are 3 compilers but also 3 
> > different ways to install ( depending on the platform ). DMD has 
> > a installer, LDC needs a manual copy job + path creation, GDC did 
> > not even bother with ( sorry ).
> 
> For me:
> 
> aptitude install ldc
> aptitude install gdc
> aptitude install dmd-bin
> aptitude install dub
> 
> Seems to work fine, and no conflicts.
[...]

Only because the OS has a sane packaging system (and some people were
kind enough to package the compilers in nice packages). For
less-privileged OSes, the user experience could be drastically
different. ;-)


T

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