Cool interview. The D discussion was looooooong, I was expecting a 2-minute talk about D and then moving onto C++ business. Pretty cool!
Now if we could have an easy way to enforce the GC out of compilation via some compile-time switch we could forever get rid of that GC equals slow application argument. I find that "D is 90% of C++'s speed and that's it" comment to be silly. I'm paraphrasing there, I can't recall the exact words, but it was something to that effect. Anyway, interesting times ahead with D and C++. Did they do any work at all regarding the ABI for C++11? Like define it properly for interoperability with other languages?