It was one of the easiest languages for me to learn, and I felt I was as productive in it as Py/Node (that I've used for years) with only about 2 weeks of playi

It was one of the easiest languages for me to learn, and I felt I was as productive in it as Py/Node (that I've used for years) with only about 2 weeks of playing with D on the side. There's a lot of intuitional things that D gets very right imho, from syntax to the standard lib. Also the generic/template support in D is a real pleasure to work with coming from most other languages I've used. There's a couple challenges though. D's community for library support isn't as rich when comparing to even newer languages like Go. The other issue is D's runtime gc (which is being slowly removed/reduced) is pretty slow compared to Go, and is similar to Python in performance. The shame is, on paper, D could replace Py or Node for being a very developer productive language. However, it can't compete with them because it doesn't have the same massive community. It also isn't performant enough to stand out against Go and Rust. So D is sitting in an uncanny valley without a silver bullet to stand out against any one particular audience. In many ways, D reminds me of Plan9. For me personally, it's one of my favorite languages to program in (it "gives me joy"), but I currently only use it for side projects. My hope is in these active projects: a) D minimizes gc use and makes the gc as fast as Go's, allowing it to complete in the performance [web app] category. Vibe.d performance competing fairly in the top of techempower benchmarks. b) Rust adds more sugar to improve developer 'ergonomics' and finishes the async additions. c) Go gets "D like" generics and macros (Shh... I can dream)