> I don't think many people thought C++ was dead 20 years ago Sure they did. Bjarne was in that camp. That's why C++11 came out, and the C++ of 20 years ago is

> I don't think many people thought C++ was dead 20 years ago Sure they did. Bjarne was in that camp. That's why C++11 came out, and the C++ of 20 years ago is dead. > Same with Java. It was very common to hear comments like "The JVM is great, but Java is terrible. Use Scala, Clojure, [language of the month]." > People looking for a C++ replacement have definitely moved on to Rust, Zig and maybe Go & Nim. Not D. I don't see how you could seriously argue otherwise. Do you have some numbers on how many moved to Zig and Nim? I'm not looking for "I've seen comments on the internet" but actual numbers. I'd expect it to be rounding error relative to the population of C++ users. And I seriously doubt the numbers would be very high for Go. But the point still stands that people have been saying this about D for a gazillion years. It might be more credible if they'd at least change the story up a bit when they say it.