As someone learning D, I thought I would give my insight in how I
came to D.
My biggest reason for choosing D is the GC. I have come from Java
and don't quite believe that I'm ready to manage my own memory
throughout an entire program, but the ability to disconnect from
the GC is a great way to start. I'm not saying that D should be a
stopgap language, it has far too much potential for that.
I think that D definitely has many positives but that there is
still work that needs to go into it. But all languages need work,
no language is perfect.
I don't have much insight onto how the long term development and
goals have gone, but I see that D is moving in a good direction
and hope it will be around for many years to come. I also wish
that D would have a wider adoption.
As it goes for tools. I agree work needs to be done on them but
that it is not as important as a well done, competent compiler
set and great documentation. D has great docs, and a quite
competent compiler group.
