Why does D not have generics?

[Q. Schroll]

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 at 17:52:16 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> You can do it in D too, if you use an interface or a 
> type-erasure library like Atila's tardy. But it requires 
> additional runtime overhead compared to the loosely-checked 
> template version. In Rust, on the other hand, you get strict 
> type checking of generic code with zero overhead at runtime.

I'll have a closer look at Tardy. I previously misunderstood it 
to be a different language and not a DUB package. Thank you.