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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 01/31/2018 06:38 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> And I'll be frank that sometimes Andrei
> can take some effort to convince, and it takes a certain amount of
> dogged persistence (and thick-skin) to get through to him sometimes.
> And it doesn't help that he has so much on his plate, and generally
> doesn't have enough time to dedicate to all the decisions waiting upon
> him to make, so sometimes it can be frustrating trying to get through to
> him.

Thanks for the critique. I'm trying to get better organized at being 
less of a bottleneck every day.

Regarding the documentation system, at a high level it's clear that 
working to improve the established solutions is often a sensible and 
productive way to go about things. This is not core language so we have 
no important backward compatibility issues.

A distinct documentation system seeking to replace the existent ones 
would need to present a strong motivation. I would be hard pressed to 
recall that we were presented with a good case that we rejected without 
due consideration.


Andrei