[OT] What are D's values?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 14:41:26 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 October 2021 at 13:29:34 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 6 October 2021 at 23:26:14 UTC, Tejas wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> My field is largely dominated by C++. So I'll talk largely 
>> about that "obvious" alternative, that is C++.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Interesting. I'm on the fence on if I should pick up C++ again 
> or not.
>
> But the sad truth is that there still is really not an 
> alternative when it comes to embedded, especially not regarding 
> functional safety :´(
>
> But, to use C++ for "normal" stuff seems just like torture. Why 
> do it when you have D or C# or some sane language ;)

Metal Shading Language, CUDA, working on LLVM or GCC internals, 
the Android or Windows stuff that only has C++ bindings 
available, Arduino, ARM mbed, high integrity computing standards 
like AUTOSAR, macOS drivers, game consoles SDKs, Swift, .NET and 
Java runtimes,...

There are plenty of places where it would be nice to use 
something else, but C++ is the name of the game, and adding extra 
layers to debugging is not getting the buy-in from most folks.