Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 21:43:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/20/2012 12:02 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What are your faves? I have a few in mind, but wouldn't want 
>> to influence answers.
>
> Although array slices have been in D nearly since the 
> beginning, I had little idea they would become so darn useful 
> and foundational. They originated from an idea by Jan Knepper.
>
> The unexpected utility of them explains why they haven't 
> appeared in other languages (yet).

As to me, slices are the most important feature of D, and they 
were the major improvement from the start, aimed to fix the 
buffer overflow vulnerabilities - the plague of low level 
languages - at the lowest cost. What can do more than that? I 
thought they were born to be epic: safety, minimalism a 
efficiency combined.