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

[Jack Stouffer]

On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 at 17:02:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> Ok, and now you are entering a messy space, define "legitimate"?

Actionable, clear, and made with the intent to better the 
language/ecosystem and not just to complain.

> Development processes need continuous improvement.

And we have been. I would rate our QA tooling to be 3x better now 
than when I started.

> For some reason this ranks below colourful error-messages.

That's just something that Walter was able to bang out in an 
hour, should have been done years ago, and was excited about. 
There's tons of work being done on GH that's never talked about 
here in the forums.

> Whatever spot D is in right now in comparison to other 
> projects, good or bad, most certainly isn't because of a lack 
> of marketing.

We clearly have a lot of work to do on messaging when many of the 
Quora answers are using eight year old information as 
condemnation.

> People expect less friction today than they did 10 years ago.
> To some extent Microsoft, Google, Jetbrains and others have 
> handed out slick freebies and conditioned programmers to be 
> more demanding.

True. D would be a in great place if everything worked out of the 
box if people wanted an IDE. But the post I was replying to first 
noted issues with the ecosystem six days ago, and has already 
rage quit over it.