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Having used both, I'd say yes. C++11 does some wonderful things, many many improvements that were a long time coming, but D put those improvements into the core language and their standard library. This makes D much more readable and hackable than C++11. Not to mention the metaprogramming support is significantly easier to use (though not more powerful, as they're both technically turing complete).

D's metaprogramming is significantly more powerful. For example, string literals can be template arguments and can be manipulated at compile time and turned back into D code.

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