God I loved playing around with D back in the day when I was in high school. It seemed like a no-brainer that it was going to be huge. It's such a shame it never took off. Incredible language.

https://github.com/nim-lang/nimony

Check out Nimony effectively Nim 3.0 from the author. It's a top to bottom rethinking of Nim with all the lessons learned. I'm so hyped about it tbh

https://nim-lang.org/araq/nimony.html

It’s pretty obvious why they didn’t, they’re GC by default. That’s already enough to put people off, even if it’s “not a problem” in reality, people will just avoid it for systems programming if they hear that, they will assume all the good features need the GC

I like both of those, I like the idea of Zig, it does seem to be striving to be pure in some areas where C is "king" that other languages gloss over, but Zig is always changing, and its got some elitist people in its ranks that left me not wanting to bother with it. Imagine a programming language maintained and used by geohot clones.