Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:02:15PM -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I plan to give a talk at Lang.NEXT
> (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012) with the
> subject above. There are a few features of D that turned out to be
> successful, in spite of them being seemingly unimportant or
> diverging from related consecrated approaches.
> 
> What are your faves? I have a few in mind, but wouldn't want to
> influence answers.
[...]

By far: CTFE.

Unittest blocks, extended concept of purity, template syntax (as opposed
to C++'s ugly mess), all types have a default value (.init - makes it so
painless to write generic code!), scope guards.


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