On 9/15/14, 11:17 AM, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
C++ intelligentsia seems to have a superiority complex with regard to
D, and that's entirely understandable.
D and C++ compete for a similar programming niche, but C++ is so much
widespread compared to D, that it's like comparing a blue whale with an
ant.
Just for fun...
Blue whale mass: 190,000 kg on average (Adult)
Typical red/black ant mass: 0.003 to 0.005 grams
Ratio: 38,000,000,000x
Rough estimates for the size of the D community (based on dmd downloads)
would place it in the tens of thousands. C++ users would be over 1
million. So...
In practice there is no real match and competition. D is not going
to replace C++ in the next few years, and probably it will not eat a
significant percentage of the C++ pie. So I think it's a good idea to
have a little more collaboration between the two language communities.
Such "superiority complex" is not going to help any one.
You may be misunderstanding something. You're telling this to the wrong
people.
Andrei
