> For example the lambda syntax is terribly verbose in D compared to Scala > or Haskell. >
It may seem surprising to you, but there is a lot of project who can't afford using Scala or Haskell. If you're constrained to use D at your dayjob, imagine what could be to be forced to use C++. Wonderful hours spent finding that your destructor failed because it called virtual functions, while your stack trace magically disappear and you have to wait recompilation for 10 min.
