On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 19:33:04 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
You and 99.9% of other C++ programmers. D is not going to gain anything from efforts to recruit C++ programmers because they are, in spite of claims to the contrary, very happy with the language.
That's not actually true. Many C++ programmer express a dislike for how the the syntax has developed over time, all the weird corner-cases, the obfuscated meta programming mechanisms and unpredictable implicitness when trying to do more advanced typing. Just getting the right constructor to fire can be a challenge.
The general C++ semantics are good enough, but the language has to many weird aspects to it that is "beyond repair" and that makes C++ programming time consuming.
