Blog series to teach and show off D's metaprogramming by creating a JSON serialiser

[Ethan]

On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 10:39:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> FYI, string is a built-in type.

string is immutable(char)[], as we all know. Syntactic sugar, not 
exactly a built in type but treating it like one is often 
valuable.

To follow on from this, I'll share my experience with doing 
exactly what SealabJaster is illustrating several times 
previously:

You also want to catch const(char)[] and just plain char[] for 
JSON serialisation purposes. So a template constraint that 
catches all those is what you want instead of just is( T == 
string ).

Dealing with wstring and dstring can be handled for bonus 
points... but eh, you only need to really worry about that if you 
are writing a library (or heavily use Phobos...).