On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 03:36:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 21:02:11 UTC, data pulverizer
wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 20:45:44 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-D-started-to-replace-C++
Andrei
[...]
But really who is selling D to anyone? We are very far from
that stage right now. Did someone sell D to Microsoft COM
team, Remedy or to Weka? Nope. People who had earned the
authority to decide became aware of the language end decided to
use it. And they did so because for them it solved their
particular problems better then anything else they could think
of.
[...]
This would be relevant if Microsoft actually followed up on that,
but
it was an one shot prototype, done by one of their employees.
Nothing followed up from there.
Instead what happened was UWP, C++/CX extensions and now with the
effort lead by
Kenny Kerr, C++/WinRT implemented in C++17.
