Let me throw my uneducated and biased opinion on the table. It's amazing how Rust development and popularity progressed over the years. Uncompromising features

Let me throw my uneducated and biased opinion on the table. It's amazing how Rust development and popularity progressed over the years. Uncompromising features, no trade-offs except for complexity and compilation speed but what language is ideal, right? For me personally, D was just easier and faster to learn than C/C++/Rust. I got basically the same speed without memory management and learning curve overhead. Coming from Python land I enjoyed fast rdmd compile-and-run times that made me feel like I am working with an interpreted language while having much more control and access to the system. Nowadays, D forum, IRC is so helpful that I get an answer within minutes. I expected quite the opposite considering how smaller the community is. So, these are my reasons for why D. You can see that I didn't care whether the language was backed up by some global company or was trendy. I got tired of Python that fallbacks to C/C++ when performance matters and if you want some real work done good luck with C/C++. JVM based languages were also not my cup of tea due to memory appetites and being comparably slower. D came as a surprise managing to be faster both in execution and compilation. It is later that I learnt about some of the shortcomings, smaller community, fewer available libraries, etc. etc.