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

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Sun Feb 11 10:16:42 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 13:39 -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On 2/9/2018 6:01 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> > Unit tests are a great idea, right? Try convincing a group of 10
> > programmers who 
> > have never written one and don't know anyone else who has. I have;
> > I failed.
> 
> Unit tests are one of the great success stories of D. I believe it
> was a success 
> because it was so simple to add unit tests to the code, and to run
> those tests.
> 
> D's unit testing system didn't even need to be very good. It just had
> to be 
> *easy*. And that changed everything.

Confirmatory evidence is that Rust does the same thing.

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