On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 00:16:58 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 at 21:01:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
"With C++xx, there's little benefit to switching" is a very
common sentiment among current C++ programmers. And it's
probably true.
It's not true.
After failing to convince my coworkers to use D, I wondered
about this. I actually thought, myself, that C++14 is good
enough and nearly like writing D. I was wrong.
I definitely agree with you that D is the better choice for us.
And I haven't talked to a random sample of thousands of C++
programmers, so I may be wrong. But my impression is that the C++
programmers of today are the modern version of the early
programmers that refused to touch FORTRAN because they weren't
about to use a compiler. They won't give up on a language in
which they are so heavily invested, one which most of the world
avoids, to use a language designed to be used by humans. For
those of us that just want to get work done, D is a great choice,
but we moved on from or never even started with C++.
