After reading "The Case for D" a little bit back, what these leaves me wondering is not, "Why this over C or C++?" but "How does this compare to D?" After a qu

After reading "The Case for D" a little bit back, what these leaves me wondering is not, "Why this over C or C++?" but "How does this compare to D?" After a quick glance, D piqued my interest more. D seems to fall a bit nearer to the C++ side of the fence than Java, but also boasts C++-level performance and relative safety. http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/217801225 http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/217801225 Neither of them will replace C or C++ in the near-term simply because those languages are so entrenched, but if I were looking for a language just to play around in for potential future use from these families, at this point it'd be D.