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

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 19:10:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> somewhat correlate with his 20-25% macros figure. The fact that 
> D brings powerful metaprogramming features to the average coder 
> in a form that's not intimidating (or less intimidating than, 
> say, C++ templates with that horrific syntax), to me, is 
> something very significant.

I don't think C++17 template syntax is all that bad, which has a 
lot to do with constexpr. I kinda like it.

But there are still special cases that are difficult to express.