On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 21:01:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
out all but the very best matches. Now there are improvements with C++11, C++14, and C++17, so *that group* getting a *much improved language* has no incentive to switch. Everyone else is already using another language.
Even if that was true, it still means that there are THOUSANDS of ex-C++ programmers that would use a C++ like language if it provided comparable semantics.
In my experience C++14 is mostly ok if you avoid advanced programming mechanisms, but if you want to achieve a specific set of abstractions you end up wasting a lot time on getting around the corner cases, like avoiding situations where the compiler cannot deduce what to do (instantiation conflicts).
