is D worth learning?

The D programming language... is it worth taking my time off my current projects to learn?

I've actually found one independenet game programmer who uses D -- source code included with this halfpipe shooter called Torus Trooper is written entirely in D.

But will this language ever really take off enough to warrant learning it?  There aren't even any books on it, and that may be a bit of a handicap in really getting mentally "into" it.

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Sure I can: it gives me the same power as C++, with less noise, less code, and little need for STL or Boost. Try implementing contracts in C++ for example, or this: http://www-users.mat.uni.torun.pl/~h3r3tic/ctrace/ Everything else is just gravy.

Of course, whatever I may think of D has nothing to do with C++ being a travesty. Either you are blind, or you never read comp.lang.c++.moderated.