Why did D leave the programming language shootout and will it return?

[Walter Bright]

On 9/23/2011 12:27 AM, Heinz Saathoff wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote...
>> Once subtlety that Andrei and I suspect will have a huge impact in the future is
>> that we've carefully designed the semantics of structs so they can be moved
>> around in memory with a simple bitcopy.
>>
>> (In contrast, C++ must invoke the copy constructor.)
>
> Only if a user supplied constructor is defined. The compiler generated
> constructor is just a bit copy and the destructor a null-operation.
> The rule in C++ is that you only pay for what you use.

Yes, I understand that those operations may be trivial. On the other hand, there 
is no limit to their complexity.