[ttkciar]

For what it's worth, I'm a long-time C programmer, but have piss-poor C++ skills, and despise C++, and D clicked for me immediately. I'm loving it.

Whether D "clicks" for someone might be more a matter of subjective taste than what languages they're used to.

As for D templates, they puzzled me until I read Andrei's D Programming book, which made everything clear. They're less narrow than C++ templates, more like directives for a syntax/scope-aware C preprocessor.

You can use them for more than just polymorphic functions; they're a way to pass source code around the program at compile-time, for almost any purpose whatsoever.