[cbsmith]

D is, in a lot of ways, C++ without the syntactical compatibility with C.

[jordigh]

Absolutely agreed.

D is kind of the C++ I always wanted. It's familiar, I can see the C++ lineage, and it's so much nicer to write than C++.

I'm currently having fun writing Advent of Code in D:

http://inversethought.com/hg/aoc/file/tip/2017