What are the prominent upsides of the D programming language?

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Monday, 21 September 2020 at 11:04:43 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> Top reasons to use D instead of for example Rust, Julia, Go etc 
> :)

As quick as possible speed (no room below) which matters for a 
few domains, and very high productivity - so the end result often 
end up providing value.

There are of course a few newer native languages now, but there 
is a disturbing trend.

They seems to increasingly rehash old ideas that did NOT work: 
forcing TABs on people (or a particular style), doing away with 
exceptions, having AST macros, lifetimes annotations, segmented 
stack, lack of GC... all these things do not kill a language but 
in the large they do not work and it's strange to try the 
experiment again.
To me it's worrying that the new native language don't learn from 
the past.