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[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 00:50:35 UTC, Israel wrote:
> Believe it or not, many of us are here because of that very
> reason, we want something that is just or nearly as good as 
> C/C++
> but without the mess. Even if its still using the C/C++ training
> wheels.

Of course, but that inevitably leads to a language with new, 
fancy features rather than something that's essentially just a 
cleaned up C. D cleans up lots of stuff from C++, but it added 
tons of stuff of its own. And even a simple language like Go 
added new stuff (though it also took away features from C). I'd 
be surprised to see a language take off that was anything close 
to just a cleaned up C, much as such a language would 
theoretically be nice to have in a variety of contexts.

- Jonathan M Davis