Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Walter Bright]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Maybe what scares Walter is a whole new syntax for properties.

It doesn't scare me. It's trivial to add more syntax.

It's just that D is complex enough - there needs to be some very good 
reasons for adding more syntax that has apparently zero semantic 
information that would be different from the usual function syntax.