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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Last I checked, C# is similar to Java in that the programmer can't decide when memory is freed with explicit new/delete statements, instead relying on an automatic garbage collector to decide the right time -- and often it may be wrong and doing allocs/deallocs at the most time-critical moments.  That shit can get very clunky against your will in certain situations no matter how efficient your algorithms are.

I admit I know less about C# than C/C++/Java and even Common LISP.  If there's a way to put a tighter leash on the garbage collector to behave as I want it to, I'm all ears.