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

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 10:17 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> It has, to some extent. But the fundamental problem remains that more
> manpower is needed so that he can be freed up to do the more
> important
> things.  Having to personally review all new public symbols added to
> Phobos, for example, just doesn't seem scalable in the long
> run.  But,
> as Andrei himself said, the last time he left that decision to
> somebody
> else, there was a noticeable deterioration in the quality of code in
> Phobos.  So we need not only more manpower, but also more *trusted*
> manpower; people who share the same views as Andrei, whom he can
> trust
> to make the right decisions without his intervention.

Hummm… could it be that Andrei did not define the task appropriately,
train the person appropriately, and mentor the person appropriately.

Management has to be able to delegate and achieve required results
without doing the work themselves.

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