On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 at 13:10:58 UTC, eles wrote:
C++ is important. Go expected C++ programmers to come, they received only python & co. programmers. People form the C++ world need something better. But they won't trade C++ for anything less than C++, even if the niche where D would fall behind C++ would be very narrow. In this case, even "very" == "too little".
Yes, I agree. I think it is likely that a future version of Rust with a little more streamlined syntax will take over for C++ unless some other language start to focus on C++ parity. And we are not talking yesterdays C++, but next gen x86 C++. That means 4000 intrinsics, auto-vectorization and possibly whole program optimization...
But Go is a strong contender in the non-interactive/non-realtime space where people used to write programs in C/C++, but hardware has improved enough to not warrant bleeding edge performance. (Suitable for web server, not suitable for DSP...)
