On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 08:05:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, 24 May 2015 at 07:21:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
It's a good sign that C++ has been copying D features
recently, it means they're feeling the heat.
I suspect that it's not so much that they're really feeling any
pressure from D so much as that when they see a cool feature
that they think could be made to reasonably fit into C++ and
improve it, they do it (or at least try to - obviously, not
everything actually makes it in). And some of the improvements
that D made are natural enough that the C++ guys could have
easily come up with them on their own (whereas others almost
had to have come from someone who had seen them in D).
The fact that C++ has taken some of D's features is definitely
a good sign for D in that it shows their value, and it means
that we're getting some good cross-pollination going on between
languages, but I very much doubt that all that many serious C++
folks feel that D is much of a threat to them - not at this
point anyway. D is a magnet for folks wanting something better
than C++, but we haven't grown enough yet to challenge C++ in
any serious way as far as market share goes.
- Jonathan M Davis
IMO I think the worst thing C++ has done is blatantly ignore
features that have been 'killer' in D(see: the reaction to the
static_if proposal)
