I don't disagree with anything you say :-) but it bears pointing out that D already lets you call into C libraries without glue. This means you can write C and

I don't disagree with anything you say :-) but it bears pointing out that D already lets you call into C libraries without glue. This means you can write C and use the entire wide C ecosystem, but use D for the parts of the program which make sense in D, painlessly.