bearophile wrote:
The point I was trying to express is that from what I have seen people are able to learn to program Python (this means quite more than just the syntax) in *much* less time it takes to learn C++/D. And this has precise causes.
Time will tell how long it will take people to become idiomatically proficient in D. But also consider that Andrei's book "Modern C++ Design" completely changed the idiomatic way people wrote C++ programs. A 1990's state of the art C++ program is very different from a 2010 one.
We've only just begun figuring out the right way to write D programs.