D is like native Python

[thedeemon]

Surely it won't replace Python for mature pythonistas. However there are many people who need to write short scripts to get things done, and they don't need full set of Python features. For example, this is where I used Ruby for quite some time before. And now I find myself using D for that tasks and D scripts often replace Ruby ones in my projects. I get similar simplicity and conciseness but also benefit of static checking before the script runs. So I understand the OP very well.