This, turns out, is ultimately the most important thing amongst most important things. I've invested quite a lot of effort and time in D, back when D1 was aroun

This, turns out, is ultimately the most important thing amongst most important things. I've invested quite a lot of effort and time in D, back when D1 was around and D2 was a newsgroup post. D1 was everything I wanted out of better C, while d2 looked like it ought to be a better c++. Two years into heavy D programming, d2 vs d1+tango vs phobos aside, most of my time was spent in hunting for things or re-inventing things for weeks which I could've got in minutes with more popular language. Now that I'm older and hopefully wiser, I just go for my standard c toolbelt or, more often, python and be done with whatever I wanted to do without 'the hunt' (often for unmaintened things or things out of my knowledge scope - so I can't even re-implement). With all that said... Lisp' siren call is still out there, and experience tells me it will be the same. (As it was once before)