> It's usually described as a C++ successor, rather than a C successor.
It is, and I honestly don't see that at all. I interpret "successor" to be more than just an alternative. D is, more or less, a superset of C - there are some small differences, but you can do much of your port from C to D by simply changing the file extension from .c to .d. Heck, you can even include C header files directly in a D program. Although D does most of the same things as C++, it does them in very different ways.
It is, and I honestly don't see that at all. I interpret "successor" to be more than just an alternative. D is, more or less, a superset of C - there are some small differences, but you can do much of your port from C to D by simply changing the file extension from .c to .d. Heck, you can even include C header files directly in a D program. Although D does most of the same things as C++, it does them in very different ways.