Not really, it doesn't feel like C++. D fixes many C++ annoyances, has a GC, doesn't have the annoying preprocessor, header files. Walter Bright did try to mak

Not really, it doesn't feel like C++. D fixes many C++ annoyances, has a GC, doesn't have the annoying preprocessor, header files. Walter Bright did try to make C++ better, remember that D came along after he wrote the Digital Mars C++ compiler. C++ has also improved in the meantime.