Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[Matt Peterson]

On Tuesday, 20 March 2012 at 19:02:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I plan to give a talk at Lang.NEXT 
> (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012) with 
> the subject above. There are a few features of D that turned 
> out to be successful, in spite of them being seemingly 
> unimportant or diverging from related consecrated approaches.
>
> What are your faves? I have a few in mind, but wouldn't want to 
> influence answers.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

It isn't mainline yet, but UFCS from git has made working with 
std.algorithm much nicer. Instead of something like 
array(filter!"a > 0"(map!((a){return somefunc(a);})(data))) where 
you can quickly drown in parenthesis and the order seems somewhat 
backwards, you can use data.map!((a){return 
somefunc(a);}).filter!"a > 0".array