Why we chose not to use D for our Linux project

[Robert Fraser]

bearophile wrote:
> Python/Ruby and D are in two quite different classes of languages. Usually where you use one of them you don't want to use the other.

Not necessarily. D is still useful for quick scripting. More to the 
point, webapps are often written with Ruby/Python/Perl backends which 
could be swapped out for one written in a native language to help 
performance.