D perfomance

[Stefan Koch]

On Sunday, 26 April 2020 at 11:40:49 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>
> I understand that it was an annoying breaking change, but aside 
> from the difficulty of migrating I don't understand why a 
> custom type isn't the appropriate solution for this problem. I 
> think I heard "We want to use the built-in slices", but I never 
> understood the technical argument behind that, or how it 
> stacked up against not getting the desired behaviour.
>
Can you imagine replacing every usage of slices with a custom 
type in your code?
And making sure programmers joining the company do the same?
and having converts that e.g. accept ubyte arrays from libraries 
and convert them into yours?