Zig mentions D in justifying its existence

[Joakim]

Probably a good sign that they mention D with C++ and Rust and 
have looked at D features:

https://github.com/zig-lang/zig/wiki/Why-Zig-When-There-is-Already-CPP%2C-D%2C-and-Rust%3F

These recent articles also mention D or talk about some similar 
features:

http://videocortex.io/2017/Bestiary/
https://medium.com/@kasperpeulen/10-features-from-various-modern-languages-that-i-would-like-to-see-in-any-programming-language-f2a4a8ee6727