> Is it worth learning for a c++ programmer? I was a former C++ full-time programmer (4 different jobs in high performance teams, high maintenance etc) and no

> Is it worth learning for a c++ programmer? I was a former C++ full-time programmer (4 different jobs in high performance teams, high maintenance etc) and now I'm a D full-time programmer for 4 years. It's easy to underestimate the difference, but to me _as a user_ those languages are night and day as an experience. D is learnable, in the sense that your learning will have some sort of ending at one point. D is surprisingly stable too, the front-end doesn't change too much and all 3 compiler share the front-end. And it's somehow forgiving. So the whole experience is tilted towards what you do with it: you feel like "programming", not "programming in C++". C++ has a few things going for it: it has some sort of mathematical completeness, you can find jobs maintaining C++ codebases for your retirement, and it has an aura of legitimacy. But overall I fear you would live in a much more complicated world, for reduced productivity.