D vs nim

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On Thursday, 3 May 2018 at 19:11:05 UTC, Mark wrote:
> Funnily, none of these languages have a "static if" construct, 
> nor do Rust, Swift and Nim. Not one that I could find, anyway.
So what's a big deal in having 'static if' construct? Most of the
new programming languages that compiles to native code like Nim,
Crystal, Rust, Red and etc have good enough meta-programming
support anyways.