Sociomantic team only half an year ago. Initially my motivation was mostly C++ frustration outrage but I was pleasantly surprised by work environment here, which is very open-minded and task-focused, something you don't expect considering all the Germany cliches :)
They learned this in the end from all the foreign spies in Berlin ... I started looking into D a bit mostly out of frustration with Java staying put for years, too much dependency on XML, change towards commodity programing, etc. Other JVM languages are either loaded with too many incoherent features (Scala), only dynamic add-on to Java (Groovy), not there yet (Kotlin), etc. D seems to me the best choice (looked also at Go, Objective-C, Rust, C# and others), but my impression is that you should have been doing some serious C or C++ before. I wonder whether it's worth diving into D without a serious background in C/C++. Will be fun at home, but jobwise it won't count. Really a pitty. Maybe the best is to wait for Kotlin. Don't know ... What do you think how much C/C++ skills are beneficial?
-- Bienlein