http://vimeo.com/17420638
A very interesting talk. I used to like D. To write code in a high level while at the same time being very close to the machine, with class invariants, unit tests and many other features seemed very appealing. But I always felt there was something wrong. About a year ago I met Ruby. Now I find languages like Java, C#, Python and D kind of ugly and uncomfortable. Why? Exactly because of what it is said in that video. This is not to start a flame war or trolling, it's just to show you why I changed my mind so much about D, and why I think (IMHO) you should care about naming conventions (like bearophile says), more powerful unittests (and not having unittests integrated into the language but rather being able to build your own test frameworks with ease) and stop caring about being C-syntax friendly. The world doesn't need that many semicolons and parenthesis. :-)
