Origins of the D Programming Language

[Walter Bright]

On 12/1/2018 3:12 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> Also string as just a plain immutable slice of utf8 text is a distinct feature 
> too. Nobody else did it. Swift only recently adopted utf8 encoding, I thought it 
> always worked that way, at least NSString in gnustep did.

In other languages, strings were always "special". I tried hard to make them not 
special in D, they were just arrays. (Unfortunately, autodecode broke that.)