On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 09:00:17 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
The response from the D community seems to be an overwhelming "It's fine as is" when it's obviously not. Which is making me question sinking more time into D if there actually is no cohesive plan to make D an actual C++ competitor rather than a toy language as it currently stands.
I found it very interesting that Bjarne Stroustrup basically admitted in his presentation of GSL that the progress of Rust has forced C++ to change faster. And there is no doubt that Apple is putting its money behind Swift, planning for a major upgrade (Swift 3)...
As far as I can tell there is a horse race between C++, Rust and perhaps also Swift that will affect what programmers expect from system level programming languages in the coming years.
So "It's fine as is" isn't really an option.
