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

Wed Jan 31 10:03:45 UTC 2018

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 06:27:05 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> And lets not forget Arduino, ESP286 and ESP32 are making 
> wonders for the kids to jump into C++ as their first language.

That's interesting, MS got a lot of traction for BASIC by making 
it available in ROM on basically (no pun intended) all 8-bit 
computers in the 80s. To most young programmers there was no 
other language than BASIC (and machine language).