Coolest D features

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)" 
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> Say you wanted to introduce a programmer friend to D. She might know one 
> of D's sibling languages (Java, C, C++, or C#), but you shouldn't rely too 
> much on that. What features of D would you describe first to hook that 
> friend in?

It might not sound like much, but built-in associative arrays and dynamic 
arrays.  I have never found a more powerful combination of containers.  I 
can do so much with just these two types.