Steve Yegge's latest article has a ratter nice quote about D:
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
"D's a really beautiful language. By rights it should be the next C++. However,
C++ programmers won't have it because it's garbage collected (even though
it can be disabled, and even though Stroustroup himself is now advocating
adding garbage collection to C++). Walter Bright is one hell of a lot smarter
than the C++ programmers who won't look at his language, and he has demonstrated
that D is as fast as or faster than C++ and nearly as expressive as Ruby
or Python. It's a secret weapon just waiting to be seized by some smart company
or open-source project."