I have a plan.. I really DO

[Ecstatic Coder]

> DasBetterC resolves that, though the library issue remains.

Indeed.

Unfortunately, it's often the standard library which makes the 
difference between a nice language, and a nice useful language.

D is a great language not only because of the many great 
decisions you made when designing the language (UFCS, slice-based 
strings and arrays, etc), but also because of its great standard 
library, which is well designed and very complete.

To be really useful as a C++ alternative, D still needs another 
standard library based on reference counting, instead of garbage 
collection, even if this implies that some class interfaces will 
have to diverge from their GC-based counterpart.

Without that, D will be a bit like a gun without ammunitions for 
many developers.

>> And Rust, despite it has perfect C/C++-like performance
>
> D has perfect C/C++ like performance, if you code it the same 
> way.

+1 :)