This is one good description of what D feels like. Something that C++ is slowly adopting from except that it can’t get rid of the old cruft. D at the moment is

This is one good description of what D feels like. Something that C++ is slowly adopting from except that it can’t get rid of the old cruft. D at the moment is a the most flexible and powerful tool to build something from scratch. If you care about performance ;) It’s not a ready as a “platform” though, you are still expected to build quite a few things that are usually taken for granted on your own.