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

[psychoticRabbit]

On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:25:47 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran 
wrote:
> On Friday, 2 February 2018 at 02:15:55 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 at 17:13:52 UTC, Seb wrote:
>>>
>>> curl https://i.dlang.io/install.sh | bash -s dmd
>>
>> Yeah..let's all run an untrusted shell script (with unknown 
>> contents), right off the web.
>>
>> Will people never learn?
>
> Relax and take a break. You can still download the script, 
> review and then run it as required.

Yeah...it's not like I'm unfamiliar with that concept ;-)

But many (perhaps most) are not.

btw. Oh.. and I do hope that debian/apache webserver they use 
cannot be hacked... cause I've heard you can do some interesting 
stuff on people systems with shell scripts ;-)