I love Zig! I started rewriting xv6 in it last year (I should probably get back to that). Just in my day to day I don't want to manage memory, but I still want performance. I'd write Go, but I'm just not a fan of its general approach to anything.

I do agree D has a problem of a split community. You see it on the forums with 50% just wanting better C++ and 50% going GC. I'm actually looking forward to C# AOT sometime soon.