It is the year 2020: why should I use / learn D?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 11/24/18 11:23 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> BTW, you can defeat autodecode for your own programs by using the 
> .byChar filter:
> 
> https://dlang.org/phobos/std_utf.html#byChar

No, use byCodeUnit instead. byChar will convert other characters to char 
(in fact, byChar just returns r.byCodeUnit if it detects it's the same 
width).

This is if you are expecting to ONLY get around auto-decoding. Of 
course, if you need conversion to a specific width, byChar or byWchar or 
byDchar will be useful.

-Steve