On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 13:05:53 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
"If you're careful, as fast as C++" isn't by itself the most compelling sales pitch.
That's never going to be a good selling pitch, if it were true 100% of the time. If that's all that someone cares about, they're just going to continue to use C++. Why bother switching? It may matter that their performance isn't going to take a huge hit by switching to D, but it's all of the other stuff about D that's going to actually get someone interested - the stuff that it does better than other languages, not the stuff that it's "as good at" as other languages. And as long as we have alternative compilers which produce code on par with the big C++ compilers, I really don't think that we have an issue here.
- Jonathan M Davis
