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

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 21:02:11 UTC, data pulverizer 
> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> [...]
> But really who is selling D to anyone? We are very far from 
> that stage right now.  Did someone sell D to Microsoft COM 
> team, Remedy or to Weka? Nope.  People who had earned the 
> authority to decide became aware of the language end decided to 
> use it.  And they did so because for them it solved their 
> particular problems better then anything else they could think 
> of.
> [...]

This would be relevant if Microsoft actually followed up on that, 
but
it was an one shot prototype, done by one of their employees.

Nothing followed up from there.

Instead what happened was UWP, C++/CX extensions and now with the 
effort lead by
Kenny Kerr, C++/WinRT implemented in C++17.