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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:12:07PM +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 21:49:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > Meaning, the "enormous performance advantage" is because of
> > "extremely eefficient native code".  I don't argue that C++ has
> > extremely efficient native code. But so has D. So the claim that C++
> > has an "enormous performance advantage" over D is specious.
> 
> Well, it isn't relevant for those people who would adopt D anyway.
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Ha! Exactly!  It's just as Walter has said before: our time is better
spent making D better for those who are already using D, or who are
*genuinely* interested in adopting D, rather than bending over backwards
trying to please the crowd that, after you fix their current complaint,
will only move on to the next excuse not to use D.


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