Many people do use D as a scripting language, replacing their use of bash. D programs can be compiled and run in one step.

    #!/usr/bin/env rdmd
    import std.stdio;
    void main()
    {
        writeln("Hello, world with automated script running!");
    }


    > ./myprog.d
    Hello, world with automated script running!

https://dlang.org/rdmd.html