Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 19:02:16 UTC, 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.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

1. Compile time reflection

This feature enables MessagePack to (de)serialize existing class 
and struct :)

2. Template friends

Easy syntax, static if(and is), alias,  mixin and other features 
are very useful.
An essential parts ingredient to write D program.

3. Built-in array and slice

I heavily use this feature in many cases.
Template engine, complex computation and network programming :)


Masahiro