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The use of Dlang is interesting. Does anyone else know of any other distro that uses it?
It struck me a fairly nice language that unfortunately didn't take off due to early politics. Personally, I wouldn't mind adopting it if became popular again.
I don't know of a distro that writes tools in it, but my favourite terminal emulator ever, tilix, uses it.