DasBetterC resolves that, though the library issue remains.
Indeed.
Unfortunately, it's often the standard library which makes the
difference between a nice language, and a nice useful language.
D is a great language not only because of the many great
decisions you made when designing the language (UFCS, slice-based
strings and arrays, etc), but also because of its great standard
library, which is well designed and very complete.
To be really useful as a C++ alternative, D still needs another
standard library based on reference counting, instead of garbage
collection, even if this implies that some class interfaces will
have to diverge from their GC-based counterpart.
Without that, D will be a bit like a gun without ammunitions for
many developers.
And Rust, despite it has perfect C/C++-like performance
D has perfect C/C++ like performance, if you code it the same
way.
+1 :)
