Did a quick lookup on Go's defer and panic, it does indeed have similarities with D's scope. Go's defer looks like the equivalent of scope(exit) in D.

The big difference is that error handling in Go uses error codes while D uses a Throwable base class subclassed into Exception and Error for recoverable and unrecoverable errors respectively.

D also has scope(success) and scope(failure) to execute code blocks depending on whether a Throwable is raised or not.

D's scope guard is similar to "defer", but it has three forms: "scope(exit)", "scope(failure)", and "scope(success)". So instead of a deferred function that tests "if r := recover(); r != nil {...}" you just do "scope(failure) {...}"

D's unrecoverable error is just a matter of having an exception hierarchy where "Exception" and "Error" are separate subclasses of "Throwable", and by convention you prefer not to write "catch (Throwable t)" or "catch (Error e)".