alt Hacker NewsI feel like the main problem people have with C++ is not the lack of features, but the absolute glut of slightly bad features. That's why I prefer D over C++ in any case: it's a much smaller language. You can learn enough to be dangerous in an afternoon, and enough to be proficient in a week or two.
I on the contrary, I rather reach out to C++, even though I like D, it isn't the features, it is the ecosystem.
Otherwise I rather stay in JVM/CLR/V8 land, when I don't need to.
I have been around D since Andrei Alexandrescu's book was published, even he is now back in C++ at NVidia, as his main work after he kind of stepped away from his role in D development.
And he is one of the figures on C++26 reflection papers.