You should definitely try it as it's easy to interface with C/C++ and the compile times are short, maybe comparable to Go. Also they fixed a lot of C++ annoyances and the language is older and definitely more mature than Rust. It's garbage collected, but you can also do manual memory allocation, although standard library support for that is rather lacking. Unlike Go, It also has a package manager called DUB.

http://dlang.org/overview.html

https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-brightest-futur...

I'm playing with it using LDC2 (Clang), not the standard DMD compiler. LDC2 generates smaller binaries from what I saw.