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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Ever heard of reference counting?  I'm sure you have since you claim to know C++ ... modern garbage collection system don't "stop the world" to do garbage collection, they can run in parallel with the rest of program and do generational collection, this is no slower than doing reference counting in a C++ program.