Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[Sean Kelly]

On Mar 20, 2012, at 12:02 PM, 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.

strings as a built-in type, plus slicing.  There's a lot of great stuff in D, but that one's a game changer.