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

[psychoticRabbit]

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

Why indeed!

"I am appalled at the monstrous messes that computer scientists 
can produce under the name of ‘improvements’. It is to efforts 
such as C++ that I here refer. These artifacts are filled with 
frills and features but lack coherence, simplicity, 
understandability and implementability. If computer scientists 
could see that art is at the root of the best science, such ugly 
creatures could never take birth."

"Since C is low level and object orientation is an inherently 
high level concept the result is conceptually incoherent."

[ R.P.Mody - C in Education and Software Engineering - 1991 ]