Things that keep D from evolving?

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 04:51:39 UTC, Matt Elkins wrote:
>> - Syntactic sugars (associtive arrays, powerful foreach, 
>> slices...)
>
> I'm still adjusting to the idea of AAs as part of the language 
> rather than library. Not sure I like it, but on the other hand 
> it doesn't really hurt. The foreach construct isn't any better 
> (or worse) than C++'s, unless I'm missing something (which is 
> very possible). But slices are awesome!

In D you can `foreach` over a list of types (AliasSeq) at compile 
time, not just over ranges at runtime. (For the moment, it's 
still only available in function bodies though, unlike `static 
if`.)