Am Fri, 6 Apr 2012 14:52:38 -0400 schrieb "Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]>:
> "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:34:09PM +0400, Denis Shelomovskij wrote: > >> And adobe Flash of course should also die. > > > > +1. It should have died a DECADE ago. Except that certain interests kept > > its decaying worm-infested corpse animating even till today. > > > > Funny, that's also how I feel about C++. As I've been saying for awhile, a > decade of near-zero interest in anything but VM languages is what kept it on > life support. Fortunately, D's quickly becoming the successor that's always > been needed so C++ will finally be able to RIP. Hehe, that might work for your own projects, but realistically look at how many more people are knowledgeable about C++, companies have big projects written in C++, desktop environments are written in C++, many tools (internal, commercial, free) exist for C++, it is a stable target and so on. D is still adding features that make it interesting for certain audiences: SSE intrinsics for the Manus of the world (game devs), annotations for GUI/ORM/RPC bindings, short lambda syntax. Not every feature of D is subjectively better than what is available in C++, but I assume most C++ devs miss _something_ that D offers or will offer (in case of the shared implementation). -- Marco
