Walter, I love your language conceptually as it runs fast and has a simple command line compiler (no .net framework hell or Java .jar madness).

However, most of my experience is with Python, Perl, Bash...etc. So I don't have a lot of Java, C#, C++ experience. With D, this sometimes bites me as all the doc seems to assume I'm familiar with that world. There is that one beginners book which is cool, but it only covers the absolute basics and I still get confused traversing stdlib.

Still, Thank you for all the work you've put in over the years!

I found D quite easy to pick upcoming from a Perl and Js background. One could get up to speed quite fast and it has a plethora of language features that will get you engaged for years to come, as opposed to Go which keeps the language as simple as possible.

I think the gcc backend is quite attractive! rustc still has some cases it doesn't catch the optimizations gcc does.