"D" – The Next Big Programming Language You’ve Never Heard Of

Andrei Alexandrescu didn’t stand much of a chance. And neither did Walter Bright.

When the two men met for beers at a Seattle bar in 2005, each was in the midst of building a new programming language, trying to remake the way the world creates and runs its computer software. That’s something pretty close to a hopeless task, as Bright knew all too well. "Most languages never go anywhere," he told Alexandrescu that night. "Your language may have interesting ideas. But it’s never going to succeed."

By Cade Metz

Full story: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/d-programming-language/