Why is D unpopular, redux.

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On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 16:30:33 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 15:21:20 UTC, zjh wrote:
>> On Friday, 27 May 2022 at 15:13:55 UTC, zjh wrote:
>>
>>
>> The `...` accompanying `sequence index` is very powerful!
>> `All sorts of strange skills` .
>> This is not a `simple tuple` or `static foreach` can 
>> match.It's too powerful.
>
> The D equivalent of C++ `...` is [`staticMap`][1] from 
> `std.meta`.
>
> [1]: https://phobos.dpldocs.info/std.meta.staticMap.html

You can do more than just map, you'd probably have to include 
more helper types to get the same behavior. Which should really 
be built into the language, which is what C++ did.