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

[Mark]

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 23:38:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> And IIRC, Andrei had already bought into the ddox system by 
> then (the process of merging it might have already begun, I'm 
> not 100% certain), so dpldocs was already starting from a 
> disadvantaged position, whatever merits it may have on its own.
>  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.
> 
> T

In DConf 2016 Andrei literally said "I'm in charge of too many 
things. Please get me fired!" [1]. Sadly, it doesn't seem like 
much firing has happened since then. :-(


[1] 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oDK91E3VKs&feature=youtu.be&t=9m42s