Remember the Vasa! by Bjarne Stroustrup

[Basile B.]

On Saturday, 2 June 2018 at 00:49:04 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 18:18:17 UTC, Tony wrote:
>> But with regard to varians compile-time stuff and function 
>> annotations and other things that didn't exist years ago, has 
>> that resulted in noticeably faster programming and/or 
>> noticeably higher code quality by those utilizing it?
>
> These are exactly the things that enable us to bring a very 
> large code base to D. Not just faster or better, it makes the 
> difference between impossible and possible. And we are 
> engineers needing to solve real-world problems, not CS nerds 
> that find these features merely interesting from a theoretical 
> perspective. Stay tuned for an announcement...

Yeah, I'm curious to know which features/aspects could have lead 
you, finally, to choose between language x, y or z for example.