Why I'm Excited about D

[Adam Hawkins via Digitalmars-d]

Hello everyone, this is my first post on the forum. I've been 
investigating the language for the past few weeks. I was able to 
complete my first useful program thanks to very helpful people in 
#d on IRC . The experience made me very interested in the 
language and improving the community around it.

I'm primarily Ruby developer (been so about the last 7-8 years) 
doing web stuff with significant JavaScript work as well. I wrote 
a blog post on why I'm excited about D. You can read it here: 
http://hawkins.io/2015/04/excited-about-d/.

I've been reading the forums here so I can see that there is a 
focus on improving the marketing for the language and growing the 
community. I see most of the effort is geared towards C++ 
programmers, but have you considered looking at us dynamic 
languages folk? I see a big upside for us. Moving from Ruby to D 
(my case) gives me power & performance. I still have OOP 
techniques but I still have functional things like closures and 
all that good stuff. Only trade off in the Ruby case is 
metaprogramming. All in all I think there is a significant value 
promise for those of us doing backend services for folks like me.

Regardless, I figured it might be interesting to hear about some 
experience coming to the language from a different perspective. 
Cheers!