It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[jmh530]

On Wednesday, 14 November 2018 at 15:49:48 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
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> I recall D being briefly mentioned in the Range specification. 
> They rejected D's approach because they wanted to build on 
> existing iterator-based code.

It's actually quite a bit more than I remembered:

https://ericniebler.github.io/std/wg21/D4128.html#iterator-operations-are-primitive