I like D. I just wish it didn't try to chase every trend. Rust has memory safety? Oh we'll add @live and @safe which will kind of implement some of that. Oh, no one wants to put 5 annotation on every function and most already written code doesn't use it anyway? Too bad.

I always viewed D as a new language, which is kind of trying to offer the convenience of C# but as a native language. But sometimes I feel like it's drifting in a different direction. In a direction of nicer C++. I would prefer C/C++ support to be a thin abstraction layer for legacy code. But instead seems like there is more and more integration with C++.

Even language features in D like copy constructors are based on matching the behavior of C++. If I wanted to use C++, I would just use C++ instead of bothering with bridging C++/D code. I think that's one of the appealing things about languages likr Rust and Zig, is that they don't even try to appeal to C++ programmers. Let C++ programmers enjoy C++, but let everyone else move on.