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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You write scientific applications? Sorry, I can't see you doing numerical computation. That's seriously hard shit, the kind of stuff PhDs think about in their spare time. It's not for idiots or trolls.

But just for the sake of argument, what exactly is it about C++ that allows it to work on a multi-proc machine? OpenMP? But OpenMP has bindings in C, so it's trivial to use from D. What about using clusters with MPI or PVM? But both of those have C bindings as well, so they're trivial to use from D too.

Or maybe you're just pretentious prick referring to plain old threads? Whoops, there's this tiny little problem there: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.html Oh shi.. I guess you should have used Erlang. Sorry.

Besides, "real" scientific applications are written in Fortran for the big problems, and MATLAB for the lesser.