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

[Ali]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
>
> Andrei

my modest opinion about this

D currently is a small player, that have an attractive 
proposition for some

* it is like C++ (that is close to the power of C++) but simpler
* it have some unique advanced feature related to meta programming

D's best hope is to be a bigger player, it is unrealistic to 
replace c++
Any improvement made to D will help make it a bigger player

And while some D features can be better advertised
(like Design by Contract, DbC is a big deal, and few other 
languages are know to have it)

I think D need to constantly add features, the idea that D is big 
enough, or that it needs more idioms rather than features, is in 
my opinion wrong

D need to constantly add features, because all of it competitions 
are constantly adding features

As D add features, it may have a breakthrough, at some point