The D Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 9
I was sad that D never took off. I had high hopes that it would eventually replace C++ for my professional development. D was a language that really enabled functional programming, and I mean <i>real</i> functional programming while retaining the low level control of C.<p>We learned a lot from pushing D, and now I am working full time as a Rust developer. Rust doesn't have everything D has, but it also has plenty that D doesn't have and it's still in the same spirit of safer, more expressive C++ with the same efficiency. I hope that D developers will check out Rust and try to push a single front, I think it has a better chance of knocking C++ off its pedestal.