I'm not a D user and I don't have a ball in this game. I just found your critique of D's syntax rather odd because it can be applied to basically any language one is not already familiar with. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think my response was particularly rude...
I mean, to me it just looks ugly. Perhaps written in a different way, it would have been better. I have seen Haskell and Elixir code, but they were much less ugly.
Then again, it is entirely subjective, and we should not argue about taste.
