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

[Ali]

On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 04:59:10 UTC, psychoticRabbit 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 February 2018 at 23:00:40 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> Even little ones like char16_t, char32_t, and being able to 
>> separate digits with single quotes, and larger ones like 
>> static if and ranges.
>
> D's support for ranges is probably the single most important 
> reason why I choose to use D. (lot's of other very good reasons 
> too, but not as important as ranges).
>
> When I look at other languages now, the first thing I want to 
> know is, does it have integral support for ranges??
>
> "ranges .. improve safety when compared with iterators because 
> they never allow invalid pairs of iterators."
>
> http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly/1407357

C++ is expected to add ranges based on this library
https://github.com/ericniebler/range-v3