i think d and ada check off a lot of the same boxes. d seems to have gone the route the article mentioned at the end: > Personally, I think that the original A

i think d and ada check off a lot of the same boxes. d seems to have gone the route the article mentioned at the end: > Personally, I think that the original Ada designers wanted a garbage collector --- a relaxed-rules Ada with closures, inline maps, the ability to have range<> arrays in structures, variable-length strings etc would be totally epic. and adds "modern conveniences" like compile-time metaprogramming. here's a discussion on the d forum: http://forum.dlang.org/post/op.wdqtuya8eav7ka@steves-laptop http://forum.dlang.org/post/op.wdqtuya8eav7ka@steves-laptop