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D,
a programming language developed by Walter Bright from Digital Mars ¹ ². The first stable version was released 2007. Walter Bright designed many other compilers as the first native compiler, the Zortech C++ compiler, the Symantec C++ compiler, and the Digital Mars C++ Compiler and many C compilers (as the Datalight C compiler). Andrej Alexandrescu joined the design and development effort in 2007. D is a distinct language and has redesigned some core C++ features, while also sharing characteristics from Java, Python, Ruby, C#, and Eiffel ³. D is in the Top 20 of the TIOBE index ⁴ .

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Design Principles

The design principles have been to write a compiler for a language that:

is fast without any compromise
has a clean syntax free of the C++ quirks
has all modern concepts of interpreted languages. In fact D has some Ruby + Python elements that make programming fun.
is easy to learn for C and C++ programmers

Native Features

Easy string handling
Static and dynamic arrays + hashes
Overloading, default parameters, varargs
Direct C access and debugger support
Contract programming
Subset of constructs for easy functional programming
Nested functions (as Macros)
Classes and inheritance and Modules/Mixins and templates
Advanced testing features as contract programming and class invariants
Thread and fiber support (actors in work)
Exception handling
Automatic or explicit garbage collection: use internal GC or free / malloc as you like.
Closures
and more...