I've tried it every so often over the years because I love what it was trying to do. Tragically, I think it might have been really successful if it just had opt

I've tried it every so often over the years because I love what it was trying to do. Tragically, I think it might have been really successful if it just had optional GC/runtime from the beginning so it could stick to displacing C++ instead of competing with all the other fancy managed languages. Ultimately, C++ got a lot of ameliorating features to make it feel more like D and D had a lot of half-baked additions that made it feel more like C++.