Is D still alive?

[Walter Bright]

retard wrote:
> I also got brainwashed by the C++ advocates years ago. However, I didn't 
> need D to see how terrible writing C++ is. C++ sure is a powerful 
> language and sometimes a necessary evil, but you don't really need very 
> strong doses of more recent languages to see how much nicer everything 
> else is.

What D unique shows is, however, that one can do C++ like things without the C++ 
issues, in other words, the problems C++ has are not necessary in order to get 
the powerful things C++ can do.