D is awesome. Very expressive, very well designed. But, to use the D standard library, you have to use (the otherwise optional) garbage collection. So, if your

D is awesome. Very expressive, very well designed. But, to use the D standard library, you have to use (the otherwise optional) garbage collection. So, if your domain dictates no garbage collection, D is not really an option (technically, you could use D without the standard lib, but that's not very pragmatic in most cases).