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

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On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 15:29:08 UTC, Ralph Doncaster 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 22:31:58 UTC, John Gabriele 
> wrote:
>> I'm not sure how long dub has been around, but having an easy 
>> to use CPAN-alike (online module repo) is HUGE. Dub is great 
>> for sales. The better dub and the repo gets, the more 
>> attractive D gets.
>
> I completely agree that the availability of libraries is a huge 
> factor.  I almost gave up on D because of the limited amount of 
> 3rd party libs.
> I think just improving the search function would help.
> http://code.dlang.org/search?q=keccak
> Comes up with nothing, so I started porting a sha3/keccak lib 
> from C to D.  Then someone pointed out botan has sha3 support, 
> which can be found if you search for "crypto"
> http://code.dlang.org/search?q=crypto

i think it is the ecosystem. we do not have a better ecosystem to 
offer and accommodate c++ developers. by ecosystem i mean, things 
that take the pain out of a c++ developer and make them solely 
focus on their code. we don't have an IDE, we don't have one 
perfect, portable GUI library, we don't have a better build 
system, we don't even have a migration guide for them. (d for c++ 
developers page does not count) we only have a better and easier 
language. that's all we have. otherwise i do not think c++ 
developers are sadomasochists that would do this torture to 
themselves. :)