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

[Andrew Benton]

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

I think that the largest issue there is probably the marketing 
and advocacy.  When Rust was about the same share as D, it had 
much better marketing.  Someone was running their twitter channel 
and working to make the language much more visible.  D flat out 
doesn't have that.

If I had to pick a second issue, it's that the ecosystem story is 
hard compared to other languages.  New programmers aren't certain 
what to choose or how to get their environment up and running.  
Compared against Rust, Go, and Java we have horrible ecosystem 
fragmentation.  E.g. three compilers, two separate languages for 
dub